{"id":4262,"date":"2020-09-02T06:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2020-09-03T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:43:26","slug":"separating-myth-from-fact-about-the-troubles-of-the-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/separating-myth-from-fact-about-the-troubles-of-the-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating myth from fact about the troubles of the Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"255\" data-attachment-id=\"4263\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/separating-myth-from-fact-about-the-troubles-of-the-postal-service\/kosar-aei-postal-09-2020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"685,255\" 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=\"Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020-300x112.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020.jpg 685w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-AEI-postal-09-2020-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Postal Service (USPS) generally does not make much news, but it burst into the headlines<br>during the summer of 2020. The media and social media were suddenly full of allegations that the<br>Donald Trump administration has unleashed \u201cattacks\u201d designed to \u201ccripple\u201d the Postal Service<br>to justify its eventual privatization and undermine the election&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/report\/separating-myth-from-fact-about-the-troubles-of-the-postal-service\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Postal Service (USPS) generally does not make much news, but it burst into the headlinesduring the summer of 2020. The media and social media were suddenly full of allegations that theDonald Trump administration has unleashed \u201cattacks\u201d designed to \u201ccripple\u201d the Postal Serviceto justify its eventual privatization and undermine the election&#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":[226],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-aei-white-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-16K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}