{"id":1117,"date":"2010-06-28T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2010-06-28T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:50:27","slug":"nation%e2%80%99s-oldest-postal-employee-retires-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/06\/28\/nation%e2%80%99s-oldest-postal-employee-retires-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation\u2019s Oldest Postal Employee Retires June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>95 year\u2013old has not missed a day of work in 37 years<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nChester Reed, who proudly claims to be 95 \u00bd and is the nation\u2019s oldest U.S. Postal Service employee, is ready to retire and will be turning in his forklift keys at his retirement celebration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nMail handler and Honoree Chester Reed<br \/>\nDistrict Manager Dallas Keck<br \/>\nSenior Plant Manager Larry Belair<br \/>\nSan Bernardino Plant Manager Jim Olson<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong><br \/>\n4:00 P.M. &#8211; Wednesday, June 30, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<br \/>\n<\/strong>San Bernardino Processing &amp; Distribution Center Cafeteria<br \/>\n1900 W Redlands Blvd.<br \/>\nRedlands CA 92373<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Media is asked to RSVP to Eva Jackson at 858\u2013437\u20131493 for further instructions on how and where to enter the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Reed will be available for pre\u2013scheduled one\u2013on\u2013one interviews. To make arrangements, please contact Eva Jackson at 858\u2013437\u20131493 in advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn his retirement date, Chester Reed will have accrued 37 years and 16 days of Postal Service employment, and to top it off, will have never used a day of sick leave. Combined with his military service time, Reed has a total of 62 years, 10 months and 12 days of government service.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was born in 1914 in Bridgeport, Ohio. As a young man, he worked as a manager at a Texas heating and air conditioning business. Reed enlisted with the Air Force at the age of 33 in 1947. He was stationed in the San Bernardino area, and after 25 years of service, retired from the Air Force as a sergeant. Reed then joined the U. S. Postal Service in 1973, and has since worked as a mail handler\u2013forklift operator at the San Bernardino Processing and Distribution Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95 year\u2013old has not missed a day of work in 37 years What:\u00a0 Chester Reed, who proudly claims to be 95 \u00bd and is the nation\u2019s oldest U.S. Postal Service employee, is ready to retire and will be turning in his forklift keys at his retirement celebration. Who:\u00a0 Mail handler and Honoree Chester Reed District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}