{"id":184872,"date":"2012-05-01T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184872"},"modified":"2012-05-02T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:00:33","slug":"gohmert-postal-service-used-faulty-data-in-closure-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184872","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Responds to Gohmert&#8217;s Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=184873\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/thumb_louiegohmert-3-150x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_louiegohmert-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-184873\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service is responding to concerns voiced by East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. According to KETK, Gohmnert says the information used to recommend shutting down the mail processing center in Owentown is faulty. Gohmert says data used in the shutdown decision is from Tyler County and not Tyler, Texas. The processing center is tentatively scheduled for a May 15 closure. In Gohmert\u2019s words, \u201cWe got some morons. Maybe they\u2019re just incompetent, who knows?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>KETK received a statement of response Tuesday from USPS spokesperson McKinney Boyd story that stated: \u201cAs the Postal Service loses $25 million a day, a national initiative includes the possible closing of plants and post offices. Presently, a congressional moratorium issued last December prevents USPS from closing any postal facilities. Just last week, the U.S. Senate approved a proposal to discuss a proposed bill \u2013 1789, before the full Senate. Again, the US Postal Service was asked to halt the closing of any facilities, until a decision can be reached by Congress.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The U.S. Postal Service is responding to concerns voiced by East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. According to KETK, Gohmnert says the information used to recommend shutting down the mail processing center in Owentown is faulty. Gohmert says data used in the shutdown decision is from Tyler County and not Tyler, Texas. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postal Service Responds to Gohmert&#8217;s Concerns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 03:48:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184872"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185281,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184872\/revisions\/185281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}