{"id":18995,"date":"2017-04-07T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2017-04-07T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:54:30","slug":"video-usps-wont-give-reason-for-delay-in-centralized-mailboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/04\/07\/video-usps-wont-give-reason-for-delay-in-centralized-mailboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: USPS won&#8217;t give reason for delay in centralized mailboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH)<\/strong> Barking.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a sound that has neighbors on Battin Street frustrated but not because of who is causing it. The frustration comes from what it means for their mail service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never had to endure this,&#8221; Neighbor Keith Crawford said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had to deal with a situation like this to go to the post office to pick up my mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a little more than a month now, mailboxes on neighbors&#8217; homes have become nothing more than decoration. That&#8217;s because Crawford said several postal carriers have expressed fear over a couple dogs in the neighborhood. That fear means USPS will no longer deliver door-to-door.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kwch.com\/includes\/2015_jwplayer_772.js\"><\/script><script> jwplayer.key=\"Xb4pq7jNsbZ4Vfx+msWU558xEnsZPO4TpfmMIQ==\";<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"player\"><\/div>\n<p><script data-vidID=\"v58e70d60c90a0\"> jwplayer(\"player\").setup({title: \"USPS won't give reason for delay in centralized mailboxes\",mediaid: \"USPS won't give reason for delay in centralized mailboxes_v58e70d60c90a0\",file:\"https:\/\/d2pvyxdw30n8fd.cloudfront.net\/KWCH\/v58e70d60c90a0\/clutterboxes.mp4\",image:\"https:\/\/d2pvyxdw30n8fd.cloudfront.net\/KWCH\/v58e70d60c90a0\/mail.JPG\",tracks: [{file: \"https:\/\/d2pvyxdw30n8fd.cloudfront.net\/KWCH\/v58e70d60c90a0\/clusterboxesinWichitaCC.vtt\"}],advertising:{client: \"vast\",schedule: {\"myAds\":{\"offset\":\"pre\",\"tag\":\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ads?sz=640x480&iu=\/43459271\/loc-desktop\/kwch&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&ad_rule=0&vpos=preroll&env=vp&output=xml_vast2&unviewed_position_start=1&correlator=[timestamp]&cust_params=Cat%3DNews\"}}}, autostart: false, ga: {label: \"mediaid\"}, width: \"100%\",aspectratio: \"16:9\"})<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like it. I don&#8217;t like it. It&#8217;s inconvenient you know because for me I work in the daytime and I work in the nighttime so I have to make time,&#8221; Crawford said.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, several others on the block are disabled and tell FactFinder 12 they can&#8217;t physically go to the post office to get their mail. One couple said it had to get a doctors note to give to the post office to get mail delivered.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the biggest problem for these neighbors and several others across Wichita. The problem is they said USPS isn&#8217;t communicating with them and they want to know when things will change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwch.com\/content\/news\/FF12-USPS--418572463.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18998\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-Clusterbox-Problems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-Clusterbox-Problems.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Kansas-Clusterbox-Problems-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) Barking. It&#8217;s a sound that has neighbors on Battin Street frustrated but not because of who is causing it. The frustration comes from what it means for their mail service. &#8220;I never had to endure this,&#8221; Neighbor Keith Crawford said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had to deal with a situation like this to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18995","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\/18995","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=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19002,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions\/19002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}