{"id":318214,"date":"2021-08-07T22:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/post-office-board-members-slam-first-class-mail-slowdown-as-ill-conceived\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T19:39:25","slug":"post-office-board-members-slam-first-class-mail-slowdown-as-ill-conceived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/post-office-board-members-slam-first-class-mail-slowdown-as-ill-conceived\/","title":{"rendered":"#Post Office board members slam first-class mail slowdown as &#8216;ill-conceived&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Post Office board members slam first-class mail slowdown as &#8216;ill-conceived&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two new members of the US Postal Service\u2019s Board of Governors slammed the agency for its plan to slow delivery of first-class mail.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Stroman, one of President Biden\u2019s three new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointees to the board, called the plan \u201cstrategically ill-conceived\u201d Friday, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/06\/1025488630\/the-postal-service-presses-forward-with-unpopular-plan-to-slow-some-mail-deliver?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">a report.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Another new member, Anton Hajjar, worried about a proposed plan to end air mail delivery, saying that potential savings were not \u201cquantified.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Stroman, a former deputy Postmaster <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a>, said at the board of governors\u2019 meeting that the country was only now beginning to emerge from a global pandemic and that first-class mail delivery was far below pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>The changes, he added, \u201cdisproportionally impact our seniors, middle- and low-income Americans, [and] small businesses, who are our most loyal customers and most dependent on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced his 10-year plan to restructure the Postal Service in March. The cost-cutting plan calls for streamlining operations and reducing the reliance on air service to deliver the mail.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Letter carrier Steve Guerra\" class=\"wp-image-19058533 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-143.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-143.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-143.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-143.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-143.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced his plan to restructure the Postal Service in March.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ronald Stroman, one of President Biden\u2019s three new appointees to the board, called the plan \u201cstrategically ill-conceived\u201d Friday, according to a report&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/us-post-office-Ronald-Stroman-140.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113660,71871,71151],"class_list":["post-318214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-7-21","tag-post-offices","tag-us-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}