{"id":18368,"date":"2017-02-24T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18368"},"modified":"2017-02-24T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:46:07","slug":"postal-employee-recognized-for-50-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/02\/24\/postal-employee-recognized-for-50-years-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Employee Recognized For 50 Years Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\">\n<p><a title=\"Washington, DC, Retail Associate David Gaskins is interviewed by a TV news crew at his surprise anniversary party.\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[23458]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/50yearEmployee_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"USPS employee David Gaskins\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-caption\">Washington, DC, Retail Associate David Gaskins is interviewed by a TV news crew at his surprise anniversary party.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 2\/24\/17 &#8211; A Postal Service retail associate is making news after marking his 50th year on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC, Retail Associate David Gaskins was honored with a surprise party this month after a customer found out about his golden anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate being appreciated,\u201d Gaskins said. \u201cI just try to follow the golden rule and treat people the way I\u2019d like to be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebration was covered on local TV news and featured surprises from family, customers, co-workers and even a DC City Council member who presented Gaskins with a letter of recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Aurelia Roman, the customer who organized the party, said Gaskins has a reputation for excellent customer service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always treats you as if you\u2019re the most important customer,\u201d Roman said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaskins was stunned by the outpouring of support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of overwhelming with the kindness people have shown,\u201d he said. \u201cI just try to do my job and make things go a bit smoother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC, Retail Associate David Gaskins is interviewed by a TV news crew at his surprise anniversary party. USPS News Link &#8211; 2\/24\/17 &#8211; A Postal Service retail associate is making news after marking his 50th year on the job. Washington, DC, Retail Associate David Gaskins was honored with a surprise party this month after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368","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=18368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18371,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions\/18371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}