{"id":2802,"date":"2018-12-03T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:41:27","slug":"day-of-mourning-to-be-observed-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Day of Mourning to Be Observed December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body field\">\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-proclamation-announcing-death-george-h-w-bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclaimed<\/a>\u00a0Dec. 5 as a national day of mourning upon the death of President George H. W. Bush. The Postal Service announced today<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of respect for President Bush, the nation\u2019s 41st commander in chief, and to honor his vast contributions to the United States during his lifetime, and consistent with the presidential proclamation, the Postal Service will observe the national day of mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service will suspend regular mail delivery and retail service on December 5. \u00a0However, some delivery, sortation and transportation operations will continue December 5 so the \u201cthe Postal Service network remains fluid\u201d and to \u201cprepare for the resumption of regular activities Thursday, Dec. 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Career employees in APWU bargaining units will receive Administrative Leave in accordance with 519.4 of the Employee and Labor Relations Manual and the May 4, 2000 Memorandum Re Clarification of Regulations for National Day of Observance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-file field-type-file field-label-above field-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">Attachments<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item\"><span class=\"file\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"file-icon\" title=\"application\/pdf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/modules\/file\/icons\/application-pdf.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a title=\"ELM National Day of Observance.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/news-attachments\/ELM%20National%20Day%20of%20Observance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=426312\">519.4 of the Employee and Labor Relations Manual<\/a> (416.32 KB)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item\"><span class=\"file\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"file-icon\" title=\"application\/pdf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/modules\/file\/icons\/application-pdf.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a title=\"MOU day of observance.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/news-attachments\/MOU%20day%20of%20observance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=356683\"> May 4, 2000 Memorandum Re Clarification of Regulations for National Day of Observance<\/a> (348.32 KB)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump proclaimed\u00a0Dec. 5 as a national day of mourning upon the death of President George H. W. Bush. The Postal Service announced today \u201cOut of respect for President Bush, the nation\u2019s 41st commander in chief, and to honor his vast contributions to the United States during his lifetime, and consistent with the presidential proclamation, the Postal Service will observe the national day of mourning.\u201d The Postal Service will suspend regular mail delivery and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","category-usps-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}