{"id":23221,"date":"2014-08-11T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/?p=23221"},"modified":"2014-08-11T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:50:57","slug":"apwu-the-postal-services-best-kept-secret-its-making-money-from-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/apwu-the-postal-services-best-kept-secret-its-making-money-from-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: The Postal Service\u2019s Best-Kept Secret &#8211; It\u2019s Making Money from Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\" data-ga=\"share_icons\" data-ga-action=\"share\"><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-fluid sr-32px sr-opacity sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a data-id=\"facebook\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a data-id=\"twitter\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet this !\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.21cpw.com\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-18788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/APWU_convention-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"APWU_convention\" width=\"218\" height=\"113\" data-wp-pid=\"18788\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Web News Article #: 149-14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>08\/11\/2014 &#8211; USPS management is doing its best to keep the good news quiet, but facts are facts.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports released by the USPS on Aug. 11, as of June 30, three-quarters of the way through Fiscal Year 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operating income was up by about $1 billion over the previous year;<\/li>\n<li>Revenue increased 2.1 percent due to a postage rate hike;<\/li>\n<li>Package volume continued to grow, and<\/li>\n<li>The decline in first-class mail volume was less than management predicted and first-class revenue was unchanged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_23226\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dforagraphic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23226\" class=\"wp-image-23226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dforagraphic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" data-wp-pid=\"23226\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click image to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDespite the good news, Postmaster General Donahoe continues to paint a desperate picture of postal finances to justify his push to privatize the U.S. Postal Service,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cBut USPS financial reports show the Postal Service is rebounding from the economic collapse of 2008 and can thrive as a public institution \u2013 if it is allowed to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A net loss of $4.2 billion for the first nine months of the year reported by the Postal Service is the result of a unique legislative pre-funding requirement the USPS will not actually pay.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/it%E2%80%99s-making-money-operations\">It\u2019s Making Money from Operations | APWU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\" data-ga=\"share_icons\" data-ga-action=\"share\"><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-fluid sr-32px sr-opacity sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a data-id=\"facebook\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a data-id=\"twitter\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet this !\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.21cpw.com\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web News Article #: 149-14 08\/11\/2014 &#8211; USPS management is doing its best to keep the good news quiet, but facts are facts. According to reports released by the USPS on Aug. 11, as of June 30, three-quarters of the way through Fiscal Year 2014: Operating income was up by about $1 billion over the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/apwu-the-postal-services-best-kept-secret-its-making-money-from-operations\/\"><span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right\"><\/span>&nbsp;Continue reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":19103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,424,3472,3473,335,3474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}