{"id":4705,"date":"2022-02-10T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2022-02-10T06:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:57:40","slug":"1-cheer-for-postal-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/1-cheer-for-postal-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"1 cheer for postal reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"2798\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/yes-the-government-can-open-your-mail-without-a-warrant\/us-postal-service-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1125\" 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=\"US Postal Service Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#8217;s in the mail? Less and lower margin stuff. Source: Wikipedia.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-300x225.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-1024x768.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, the House of Representatives voted to advance&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117HR3076RH-RCP117-32.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">postal reform legislation<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/202238\" target=\"_blank\">342 to 92<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Democrats and Republicans alike could vote, in an election year, no less, for H.R. 3076 is praiseworthy. Postal reform is rare; only two significant postal reform bills have been enacted in the past half-century. Moreover, this usually drab issue has become exceedingly political in recent years, with Democrats accusing former President Donald Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of trying to wreck the United States Postal Service (USPS) to stop voting by mail&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/1-cheer-for-postal-reform\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the House of Representatives voted to advance&nbsp;postal reform legislation&nbsp;by&nbsp;342 to 92. That Democrats and Republicans alike could vote, in an election year, no less, for H.R. 3076 is praiseworthy. Postal reform is rare; only two significant postal reform bills have been enacted in the past half-century. Moreover, this usually drab issue has become [&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":[161],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","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=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}