{"id":2913,"date":"2015-03-30T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:49:09","slug":"the-u-s-postal-services-existential-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-u-s-postal-services-existential-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s Existential Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2914\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2914\" data-attachment-id=\"2914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-u-s-postal-services-existential-problem\/dead-letter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,453\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dead Letter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: MachineCancel.org&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter-300x170.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2914\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter.jpg\" alt=\"Source: MachineCancel.org\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dead-Letter-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: MachineCancel.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service has an existential problem. For five years, the agency has flirted with insolvency. It has $15 billion in debt, its statutory maximum. According to its <a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/who-we-are\/financials\/financial-conditions-results-reports\/fy2015-q1.pdf\">most recent financial statement<\/a>, the USPS&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/fixgov\/posts\/2015\/03\/30-postal-service-existential-problem-kosar\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service has an existential problem. For five years, the agency has flirted with insolvency. It has $15 billion in debt, its statutory maximum. According to its most recent financial statement, the USPS&#8230; (read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161],"tags":[168,175],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-brookings-institution","tag-newsweek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-KZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}