{"id":15351,"date":"2016-06-24T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15351"},"modified":"2016-06-24T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:04:17","slug":"video-rural-delivery-postal-routes-causing-concern-among-texas-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/24\/video-rural-delivery-postal-routes-causing-concern-among-texas-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Rural delivery postal routes causing concern among Texas residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2237676&amp;type=video&amp;title=Mail%20workers%20in%20personal%20cars%2C%20no%20uniform&amp;site=273&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas &#8212; When you think of mail delivery, you expect to see a postal worker in a uniform and that familiar postal truck, but KENS5 is learning mail is being delivered by postal workers who drive their personal cars and dress in regular clothes.<\/p>\n<p>A man in a t-shirt, denim shorts fishing mail out of his personal car is not exactly what you might expect from the U.S. Postal Service. That is who delivers mail to a luxury apartment building, located near Fiesta Texas in northwest San Antonio. The postal service told KENS 5 that zip code and mail carrier are part of its so-called &#8220;rural delivery route.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the building, like Christopher Alvarez, said they see the man in plain clothes stuffing their mail box and felt unsettled about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kens5.com\/news\/rural-delivery-postal-routes-causing-concern-among-residents\/254287359\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15352\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/texas-rural-delivery.jpg\" alt=\"texas-rural-delivery\" width=\"460\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/texas-rural-delivery.jpg 460w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/texas-rural-delivery-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas &#8212; When you think of mail delivery, you expect to see a postal worker in a uniform and that familiar postal truck, but KENS5 is learning mail is being delivered by postal workers who drive their personal cars and dress in regular clothes. A man in a t-shirt, denim shorts fishing mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15351","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\/15351","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=15351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}