{"id":15174,"date":"2016-06-02T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15174"},"modified":"2016-06-02T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:07:04","slug":"video-postal-service-dismantles-suspicious-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/02\/video-postal-service-dismantles-suspicious-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal Service Dismantles Suspicious Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2208328&amp;type=video&amp;title=The%20USPS%20Has%20A%20Forensics%20Lab&amp;site=83&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know the drill; through rain, sleet, snow and hail. Every one associates that saying with the Post Office and while its on a building, it&#8217;s not an official motto\u00a0and hasn&#8217;t been used in ads in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people also think the Post Office operates on tax dollars, also not true. But what is true,\u00a0is the Post Office has a forensics lab and when a suspicious device is found in the mail, a specialized team disassembles the device.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out, the video shows \u00a0a reconstructed suspicious device containing nails found near a collection box in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have an explosive device, you don&#8217;t want to move it at all, you want to make sure that it is kept safe, then rendered safe, which means basically disassembled, &#8221; explains Forensic Chemist Vincent Desiderio.<\/p>\n<p>Once it is rendered safe the evidence comes here to the Postal Inspection Service&#8217;s Forensics Lab in Washington, DC. \u00a0Their mission: to find evidence that will assist investigators to track down a suspect or build a case. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmynews2.com\/news\/local\/2-wants-to-know\/postal-service-dismantles-suspicious-devices\/226683201\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15176\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/usps-forensics-lab.jpg\" alt=\"usps-forensics-lab\" width=\"442\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/usps-forensics-lab.jpg 442w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/usps-forensics-lab-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the drill; through rain, sleet, snow and hail. Every one associates that saying with the Post Office and while its on a building, it&#8217;s not an official motto\u00a0and hasn&#8217;t been used in ads in decades. Lots of people also think the Post Office operates on tax dollars, also not true. But what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15174","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\/15174","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=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15177,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions\/15177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}