{"id":393459,"date":"2021-11-17T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=195696"},"modified":"2021-11-17T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:28:02","slug":"the-post-office-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/17\/the-post-office-at-a-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post Office At A Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most talked-about expansion idea is a revival of postal banking, though\u00a0advocates\u00a0have proposed\u00a0everything from in-home delivery of perishable groceries to senior wellness checks. Until postal banking was discontinued in 1967, the Post Office earned a modest fee for administering basic savings accounts, partnering with private banks that paid interest to account holders in exchange for loanable funds. As\u00a0proposed\u00a0by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), an updated postal banking system could be paired with broader government efforts to modernize the monetary system.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/the-post-office-at-a-crossroads\/\">The Post Office At A Crossroads<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/the-post-office-at-a-crossroads\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most talked-about expansion idea is a revival of postal banking, though\u00a0advocates\u00a0have proposed\u00a0everything from in-home delivery of perishable groceries to senior wellness checks. Until postal banking was discontinued in 1967, the Post Office earne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5725,5925],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393927,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393459\/revisions\/393927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}