{"id":12354,"date":"2015-02-10T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:39:44","slug":"the-future-of-post-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=12354","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Post Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Dermot Higgins, Postmaster in Ballymun and the Dublin spokesperson for the Irish Postmasters&#8217; Union talks to Noel McGuinness about the important social role played by the Post Offices.\u00a0 He also says that a Post Office Business Development Group was set up by the Government last month to explore how more business can be delivered through Post Offices in order to prevent large numbers of Offices from closing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9889\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9889','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=12354-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"futureforpostoffices.mp3\">Download<\/a> (23.4MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermot Higgins, Postmaster in Ballymun and the Dublin spokesperson for the Irish Postmasters&#8217; Union talks to Noel McGuinness about the important social role played by the Post Offices.\u00a0 He also says that a Post Office Business Development Group was set up by the Government last month to explore how more business can be delivered through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9890\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9890','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=12354-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/futureforpostoffices.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"futureforpostoffices.mp3\">Download<\/a> (23.4MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}