{"id":18333,"date":"2017-02-23T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:45:34","slug":"video-postal-service-apologizes-for-losing-over-a-months-worth-of-virginia-mans-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/02\/23\/video-postal-service-apologizes-for-losing-over-a-months-worth-of-virginia-mans-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal Service apologizes for losing over a month&#8217;s worth of Virginia man&#8217;s mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/up.anv.bz\/latest\/anvload.html?key=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\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong class=\"dateline\">CHANTILLY, Va.<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; We all depend on mail service and it is really important at this time of year with important<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">tax<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>forms on the way. But for one family in Virginia, the mail was simply lost for January and part of February. Not only are they missing tax forms, but medical reimbursement checks as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">In Paul Combs\u2019 quiet Chantilly neighborhood, the mail usually comes on time and often with a hello from the mailman. But his problem came when he needed his mail kept at the post office in Chantilly while he went out of town to care for a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">family<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>member. However, when he returned, his mail ended up missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">No one seems to know where Combs\u2019 mail is. Was it lost? Thrown away? Combs said he is missing important tax forms, several vintage records he collects and medical reimbursement checks valued at thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Combs said he has pressed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">postal<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cTheir response wasn&#8217;t that optimistic,\u201d Combs said. \u201cIt was more to the effect of \u2013 we are looking for it. We are sorry. We have never seen anything like this happen before. The only way I get any response is that I call them on a daily basis.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/local-news\/237476890-story\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #353e47; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18334\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/USPS-Loses-Mans-Mail-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/USPS-Loses-Mans-Mail-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/USPS-Loses-Mans-Mail-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/USPS-Loses-Mans-Mail.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANTILLY, Va.\u00a0&#8211; We all depend on mail service and it is really important at this time of year with important\u00a0tax\u00a0forms on the way. But for one family in Virginia, the mail was simply lost for January and part of February. Not only are they missing tax forms, but medical reimbursement checks as well. In Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","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\/18333","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=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18335,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions\/18335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}