{"id":10172,"date":"2015-02-26T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T13:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2015-02-26T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T13:56:10","slug":"video-usps-changes-outdated-911-policy-at-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/26\/video-usps-changes-outdated-911-policy-at-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: USPS Changes Outdated 911 Policy at Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service (USPS) changed an outdated emergency policy in January following an NBC Bay Area investigation that exposed critical delays in a life and death situation at a mail processing facility in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, dating back to the 1970s, advised postal service employees not to call 911 first when they witnessed a medical emergency and instead instructed them to call the onsite postal police unit. The policy stated \u201cOnly the postal police are to initiate the 911 procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USPS adopted a new 911 policy in the Oakland facility at the beginning of the year. The first line now states \u201cIn an emergency, anyone should immediately call 911.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area investigated the policy after a letter sorting machine operator, Sam Macasieb, died from head trauma he sustained at the facility last summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/investigations\/USPS-Changes-Outdated-911-Policy-294079261.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=294156921&amp;videoID=CVTd8nslzPau&amp;origin=nbcbayarea.com&amp;sec=investigations&amp;subsec=&amp;width=475&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/911-change-at-Oakland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10173\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/911-change-at-Oakland-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"911 change at Oakland\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/911-change-at-Oakland-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/911-change-at-Oakland.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service (USPS) changed an outdated emergency policy in January following an NBC Bay Area investigation that exposed critical delays in a life and death situation at a mail processing facility in Oakland. The policy, dating back to the 1970s, advised postal service employees not to call 911 first when they witnessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","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=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}