{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=656", "Case Announces that Post Office In Manoa Will Remain Open", "2021-09-22", "2021", "2021-09", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=24", "scraper", "(Washington, DC) \u2013 U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced that the post office that has served the M\u0101noa community for decades will remain open following a letter he sent to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to reconsider the decision to close the facility at the end of this month.\n\n\u201cThis is certainly good news, not just for the 24,000 residents in the community I was privileged to represent for so many years in our State House, but for delivery of government services where people live and work wherever possible,\u201d said Case. \u201cI applaud our local, regional and national USPS for taking a second look, recognizing local realities and making it work.\u201d\n\nCase said the United States Postal Service (USPS) reached an agreement with the operator of the M\u0101noa Contract Postal Unit (CPU) that will allow him to continue operations at the M\u0101noa Marketplace.\n\nThe USPS had initially called for the closure because the agency had denied the operator\u2019s request to account for increased costs including but not limited to the landlord\u2019s proposal to raise lease rents on the operator. The operator concluded then that it could not continue with a financially viable operation.\n\nIn his letter to the Postmaster General, Case, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, pointed to the concern that \u201cbecause of Hawaii\u2019s unique circumstances including very high land prices and cost of goods and services, many federal cost-benefit analysis formulas are not appropriate for Hawai\u2018i.\u201d In the past, Case has requested various studies from the General Services Administration to ensure that its leasing equations account for these higher costs.\n\nContract postal units are supplier-owned or suppler-leased sites operated by private vendors under contract to the USPS to provide postal products to the public at USPS prices.\n\nAttachment: Case letter to the Postmaster General dated September 17, 2021\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=656"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6526211984455585, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}