{"id":5907,"date":"2014-02-20T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:32:36","slug":"postal-system-lost-354-million-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/postal-system-lost-354-million-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal System Lost $354 Million During Q4 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Postal Service continues to lose money, posting a $354 million loss over the past three months, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/congress\/postal-service-had-354-million-first-quarter-loss\/2014\/02\/07\/871a5bd8-900f-11e3-878e-d76656564a01_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe<\/a>. While still steep, those losses don&#8217;t compare to the $1.3 billion the agency lost during the same quarter the previous year. In an effort to stop the bleeding, the cost of a first-class stamp rose from 46 to 49 cents on Jan. 26 and Congress currently is considering a bill that would end Saturday mail delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Postal Service continues to lose money, posting a $354 million loss over the past three months, according to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. While still steep, those losses don&#8217;t compare to the $1.3 billion the agency lost during the same quarter the previous year. In an effort to stop the bleeding, the cost of &#8230; <a title=\"US Postal System Lost $354 Million During Q4 2013\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/postal-system-lost-354-million-quarter\/\" aria-label=\"More on US Postal System Lost $354 Million During Q4 2013\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}