{"id":26549,"date":"2011-09-16T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26549"},"modified":"2011-09-17T03:46:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T07:46:21","slug":"reality-bites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26549","title":{"rendered":"Reality Bites&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tocsin has been sounding for a while now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/1007-other\/181819-postal-service-faces-grim-new-reality\" target=\"_blank\">A Government agency is undergoing a reality check.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current mail system of the United States is &#8220;no longer financially sustainable,&#8221; and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is looking for billions of dollars in cuts to its services.<\/p>\n<p>The postal service announced Thursday it was considering closing nearly 250 processing facilities, cutting equipment by 50 percent and slowing mail delivery in an extreme cost-cutting effort. It is looking for $3 billion in annual savings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t be my first choice, but I&#8217;m hoping the noise will begin to include others.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt it, the USPS seems to be the only agency which has been so exposed?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tocsin has been sounding for a while now. A Government agency is undergoing a reality &hellip; <a title=\"Reality Bites&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26549\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reality Bites&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}