{"id":906,"date":"2011-09-06T16:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-09-06T16:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T07:49:36","slug":"new-york-times-september-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"New York Times (September 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service (USPS) stands on the verge of bankruptcy. Volume has been shrinking in the digital age and the USPS deficit is expected to reach $9.2 billion by the end of the current fiscal year. The postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, is seeking Congressional approval of his plan for \u201celiminating Saturday mail delivery, closing up to 3,700 postal locations and laying off 120,000 workers.\u201d Without drastic measures, the USPS will default on pension payments this month and \u201csometime early next year\u2026 run out of money to pay its employees and gas up its trucks\u2026 forcing it to stop delivering the roughly three billion pieces of mail it handles weekly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service (USPS) stands on the verge of bankruptcy. Volume has been shrinking in the digital age and the USPS deficit is expected to reach $9.2 billion by the end of the current fiscal year. The postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, is seeking Congressional approval of his plan for \u201celiminating Saturday mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[539,46,711,907,8,699],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-bankruptcy","tag-congress","tag-default","tag-digital","tag-u-s","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}