{"id":15637,"date":"2016-07-19T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15637"},"modified":"2016-07-19T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:52:36","slug":"video-hot-jobs-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mail-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/07\/19\/video-hot-jobs-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mail-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hot Jobs: A day in the life of a mail carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2295061&amp;type=video&amp;title=Hot%20Jobs%3A%20A%20day%20in%20the%20life%20of%20a%20Mail%20Carrier&amp;site=499&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"475\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BRYAN, Texas &#8212; The Texas heat is unavoidable, especially when your profession requires you work outside all day.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Bates has served as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service (USPS) for 10 years. Working six days a week and close to 300 days out of the year, the job can be demanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You get wore out as the day goes on delivering mail,&#8221; said Bates. &#8220;You have to make sure you keep drinking water so you don&#8217;t get dehydrated out here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mail carriers in Bryan, Texas deliver nearly half-million pieces of mail every week, according to a USPS spokesman. Before they hit the streets, carriers must load and organize their truck&#8217;s load, including packages letters and flats. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kagstv.com\/news\/local\/hot-jobs-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mail-carrier\/276219330\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15638\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/texas-carrier-jay-bates.jpg\" alt=\"texas-carrier-jay-bates\" width=\"433\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/texas-carrier-jay-bates.jpg 433w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/texas-carrier-jay-bates-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/texas-carrier-jay-bates-119x89.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRYAN, Texas &#8212; The Texas heat is unavoidable, especially when your profession requires you work outside all day. Jay Bates has served as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service (USPS) for 10 years. Working six days a week and close to 300 days out of the year, the job can be demanding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15637","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\/15637","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=15637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15639,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions\/15639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}