{"id":14318,"date":"2013-11-10T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:20:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T09:20:20","slug":"got-mail-us-postal-service-hopes-you-get-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/got-mail-us-postal-service-hopes-you-get-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Mail? US Postal Service Hopes You Get Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/youmail.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are three curbside mailboxes and clusters in California.\u00a0Mailboxes are more than receptacles to collect mail. They are decorative icons that provide welcome messages, flash with holiday pizzazz in multi-colored lights guarded by Nutcrackers surrounded by beds of poinsettias, or are shaped like lighthouses, birds, bugs&#8211;you name it! What would happen if the mail delivery ended and mailboxes were no longer needed? What about the creed: &#8220;Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these\u00a0couriers\u00a0from the swift completion of their appointed rounds&#8221;? Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/us-postal-service\/\">highlights from the history of U.S. Mail Delivery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the U.S. Postal Service Agency lost $16 billion, exhausted a $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury and defaulted on payments owed to the federal government to prefund retiree health care benefits totaling $11 billion. Postal officials say everything&#8217;s on the table when it comes to cost-cutting, including getting rid of home delivery. Earlier this year, USPS wanted to end Saturday mail delivery. That didn&#8217;t go through, but California Republican Darrell Issa lead the House effort to save the postal service by recommending doing away with doorstep delivery. He&#8217;s made that a key part of his bill, which would require everyone to get mail at a curbside box or from a cluster box&#8211;35 million residences and businesses currently get mail delivered to their doorstep.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail volumes have dropped<\/li>\n<li>Consumers switching to\u00a0electronic billing and e-mailing<\/li>\n<li>$30 billion is what it costs to deliver mail in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Ending door deliveries could save $4.5 billion a year<\/li>\n<li>$3 billion could be saved by ending Saturday mail service<\/li>\n<li>Elderly &amp; disabled, especially in snowy climates, will be impacted the most if changes are made<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are three curbside mailboxes and clusters in California.\u00a0Mailboxes are more than receptacles to collect mail. They are decorative icons that provide welcome messages, flash with holiday pizzazz in multi-colored lights guarded by Nutcrackers surrounded by beds of poinsettias, or are shaped like lighthouses, birds, bugs&#8211;you name it! What would happen if the mail delivery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}