{"id":4285,"date":"2020-09-15T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:48:53","slug":"could-the-pandemic-hobble-the-us-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-the-pandemic-hobble-the-us-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the pandemic hobble the US Postal Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"346\" data-attachment-id=\"4286\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-the-pandemic-hobble-the-us-postal-service\/kosar-covid-figure-09-15-2020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"542,346\" 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-COVID-figure-09-15-2020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020-300x192.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020.jpg 542w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kosar-COVID-figure-09-15-2020-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, nearly 35,000 postal workers have missed work due to being quarantined, according to data from the US Postal Service (USPS). That amounts to more than 5.5 percent of the agency\u2019s workforce of 625,000. Some of these employees tested positive for coronavirus; others were removed from work because they were in close proximity to a carrier of the virus&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/society-and-culture\/could-the-pandemic-hobble-the-us-postal-service\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, nearly 35,000 postal workers have missed work due to being quarantined, according to data from the US Postal Service (USPS). That amounts to more than 5.5 percent of the agency\u2019s workforce of 625,000. Some of these employees tested positive for coronavirus; others were removed from work because they were in close proximity to [&hellip;]<\/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":[136],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidents","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-177","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","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=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}