{"id":19033,"date":"2017-04-11T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:27:36","slug":"video-california-residents-buy-new-mailboxes-after-theft-vandalism-usps-should-have-helped-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/video-california-residents-buy-new-mailboxes-after-theft-vandalism-usps-should-have-helped-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: California Residents Buy New Mailboxes After Theft, Vandalism &#8211; USPS Should Have Helped They Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abc7news.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=1857837\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>California is seeing a big increase in mail thefts. It has been a particularly big problem in the East Bay. ABC7 News has discovered that Livermore residents have been buying new mailboxes when it&#8217;s really the post office&#8217;s responsibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After thieves stole their mail and broke their cluster box at the end of January, Julie Herd called the postmaster inspector to report the problem and find a solution. &#8220;The post office wasn&#8217;t exactly helpful,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They referred me back to the local post office who then referred me back to the hub, who then so helpfully told me it&#8217;s not their responsibility to fix the post office boxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Herd did what she was told and ordered a new $1,300 cluster box, had her neighbors pitch in for the replacement and installed it on Fieldstone Court at the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>But six weeks later, the post office still hasn&#8217;t installed their locks on the mailbox to make it functional.<\/p>\n<p>Roseanne Thompson also lives in the neighborhood and has been reporting the problem to the supervisors at their post office on Las Positas Court. &#8220;Who told me there&#8217;s 500 locks on back order and like, basically you just have to wait,&#8221; Thompson told ABC7 News. <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7news.com\/news\/livermore-residents-buy-new-mailboxes-after-theft-vandalism\/1857610\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19034\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA.jpg 645w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA-570x356.jpg 570w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Livermore-CA-378x237.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is seeing a big increase in mail thefts. It has been a particularly big problem in the East Bay. ABC7 News has discovered that Livermore residents have been buying new mailboxes when it&#8217;s really the post office&#8217;s responsibility. After thieves stole their mail and broke their cluster box at the end of January, Julie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19033","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\/19033","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=19033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19035,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions\/19035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}