{"id":15894,"date":"2016-08-11T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2016-08-11T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:25:10","slug":"trump-mailer-defaced-before-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/08\/11\/trump-mailer-defaced-before-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump mailer defaced before delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/florida-defaced-mail.jpg\" alt=\"florida-defaced-mail\" width=\"479\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/florida-defaced-mail.jpg 479w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/florida-defaced-mail-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/florida-defaced-mail-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>WINTER HAVEN \u2014 Richard White received an unwelcome message Saturday in the mail.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Written across a mailer from the Donald Trump campaign was a message written in black ink that read &#8220;MAILMAN SAYS HILLARY 2016.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said he complained to postal officials at Winter Haven&#8217;s Florence Villa post office.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We were disappointed to learn that an employee may have defaced a mail piece,&#8221; said U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Enola Rice, adding she was unaware of any similar incidents in Polk County or Florida.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Postal Service is currently investigating the incident alleged to have occurred in Winter Haven, and will take appropriate action depending upon the results of the investigation,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>White said whoever is responsible for this incident should be prosecuted under federal laws that prohibit defacing mail or to engage in political activity while on duty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20160810\/politics\/160819945\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINTER HAVEN \u2014 Richard White received an unwelcome message Saturday in the mail. Written across a mailer from the Donald Trump campaign was a message written in black ink that read &#8220;MAILMAN SAYS HILLARY 2016.&#8221; He said he complained to postal officials at Winter Haven&#8217;s Florence Villa post office. &#8220;We were disappointed to learn that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894","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=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15896,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/15896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}