{"id":20577,"date":"2017-08-12T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20577"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:19:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T12:19:01","slug":"video-usps-apologizes-promises-to-correct-mail-delivery-issues-in-richmond-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/08\/12\/video-usps-apologizes-promises-to-correct-mail-delivery-issues-in-richmond-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: USPS apologizes, promises to correct mail delivery issues in Richmond, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.ooyala.com\/static\/v4\/stable\/4.16.8\/skin-plugin\/iframe.html?ec=pna205YzE6U5FkSsQ0B9EVkfNuZFCeYi&amp;pbid=bbd65cd3541a43b9a13c9c23190411cb&amp;pcode=IzcHE6tfH3QyrXt6t8LIU_rrYlNy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HENRICO, Va. \u2013 The U.S. Postal Service said that additional training and hiring of mail carriers is underway, as well as monitoring established, to help improve mail delivery service in the Richmond area.<\/p>\n<p>The agency laid out its plans in a response to Congressman Donald McEachin, who contacted Postmaster General Megan Brennan on July 21 in regard to complaints of slow mail delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said that delivery service during that week was affected by an \u201cunexpected staffing issue\u201d and some of the \u201chottest weather Richmond has experience in many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese factors caused some customers not to receive mail for multiple days, for which we sincerely apologize,\u201d said representative Cory Brown. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/wtvr.com\/2017\/08\/11\/usps-apologizes-promises-to-correct-mail-delivery-issues\/\">WTVR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20578\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Richmond-Service-Problems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Richmond-Service-Problems.jpg 538w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Richmond-Service-Problems-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENRICO, Va. \u2013 The U.S. Postal Service said that additional training and hiring of mail carriers is underway, as well as monitoring established, to help improve mail delivery service in the Richmond area. The agency laid out its plans in a response to Congressman Donald McEachin, who contacted Postmaster General Megan Brennan on July 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20577","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\/20577","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=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20579,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions\/20579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}