{"id":18100,"date":"2020-08-14T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=18100"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:36:31","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-1811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=18100","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The Post Office predates the founding of the country by ~40 year&#39;s &#8211; so it has a very long and storied history <\/p>\n<p>It was started by Benjamin Franklin in the 1730s<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the <em>only<\/em> guaranteed way to get a little piece of folded paper, inside another piece of folded paper, with a little sticker in the corner, and chicken-scratching on the outside can make it from <em>anywhere<\/em> in the US to <em>anywhere else<\/em> in the US in a matter of days for about $0.55<\/p>\n<p>As for the second part of your question, the <em>proper<\/em> wording should be \u201dis the government breaking it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether it <em>is<\/em> or <em>is not<\/em> \u201dbeing broken\u201d is a very loaded question <\/p>\n<p>Ask random folks who want to hate the current presidential administration &#8211; they&#39;ll tell you Trump wants the USPS to fail so mail-in ballots won&#39;t work<\/p>\n<p>Ask senior postal management (including the PMG), and you&#39;ll find they&#39;re working with substantial budget shortfalls, and are trying to improve cost and operational efficiency: and, in fact, <em>have been<\/em> improving on both counts this year &#8211; even in just the last ~2 months the current Postmaster General has been in place<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>August 14, 2020 at 09:07AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/comments\/i9lh63\/eli5_why_is_the_post_office_such_an_important\/g1frkzf?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post Office predates the founding of the country by ~40 year&#39;s &#8211; so it has a very long and storied history It was started by Benjamin Franklin in the 1730s It&#39;s the only guaranteed way to get a little piece of folded paper, inside another piece of folded paper, with a little sticker in &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=18100\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18101,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}