{"id":3252,"date":"2016-01-11T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:41:51","slug":"does-the-usps-even-need-a-board-of-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/does-the-usps-even-need-a-board-of-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the USPS Even Need a Board of Governors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is supposed to have 11 members<\/a>. It currently has three<\/a><\/u>: one governor, the postmaster-general and the deputy postmaster-general.<\/p>\n

By law, the board cannot discharge its duties unless it has a quorum, which requires six members be present. The board has been short of that number for more than a year<\/a>, falling from six governors in November 2014 to five in December 2014 to three in November 2015 to one in December 2015…. (Read more at the R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is supposed to have 11 members. It currently has three: one governor, the postmaster-general and the deputy postmaster-general. By law, the board cannot discharge its duties unless it has a quorum, which requires six members be present. The board has been short of that number for more than […]<\/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":[176],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Qs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}