{"id":10120,"date":"2015-02-20T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2015-02-20T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:39:59","slug":"press-reports-praise-postal-employees-perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/20\/press-reports-praise-postal-employees-perseverance\/","title":{"rendered":"Press reports praise postal employees\u2019 perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cold weather, warm coverage<\/h1>\n<h2>Press reports praise postal employees\u2019 perseverance<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-02-19T19:09:00.000Z\">USPS\u00a02\/19\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/02feb\/images\/news20s1.jpg\" alt=\"NBC News report\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Chicago Letter Carrier Nicole Easter<br \/>\nappears in an NBC News report<\/h6>\n<p>Postal Service employees are braving frigid temperatures to keep the mail moving this week \u2014 and the press is paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>In a Feb. 18 \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/video\/eastern-u.s.-braces-for-potentially-record-breaking-cold-401131075544\" target=\"_blank\"><em>segment<\/em><\/a>, Chicago Letter Carrier Nicole Easter is shown delivering mail despite the brutal temperatures that are making this the city\u2019s coldest February since 1875.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a nuisance sometimes trying to maneuver this cart through the snow and ice,\u201d Easter says as she navigates a slick sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>USPS employees have also been the subject of news reports in the Northeast, where snow accumulation is <a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/02feb\/news18s1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>breaking records<\/em><\/a>, as well as some Southern states, where ice is making travel difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe drive through it if possible. If we\u2019re not, we\u2019ll actually get out and deliver [the mail],\u201d Richmond, VA, Customer Service Manager Margaret Williams<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/story\/28141996\/after-snowstorm-mail-carriers-battle-rough-conditions\" target=\"_blank\"><em>tells WWBT<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cold has also proven no match for Louisville, KY, Letter Carrier Dennis Marsee, a 30-year USPS veteran who<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wave3.com\/story\/28142778\/weather-conditions-dont-stop-some-from-working-outside\" target=\"_blank\">tells WAVE<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>he isn\u2019t bothered by the below-zero wind chills hammering the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the challenge of a weather event like this,\u201d Marsee says. \u201cIt becomes game time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold weather, warm coverage Press reports praise postal employees\u2019 perseverance USPS\u00a02\/19\/15 Chicago Letter Carrier Nicole Easter appears in an NBC News report Postal Service employees are braving frigid temperatures to keep the mail moving this week \u2014 and the press is paying attention. In a Feb. 18 \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d\u00a0segment, Chicago Letter Carrier Nicole Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}