{"id":20619,"date":"2017-08-15T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:48:23","slug":"respectful-delivery-by-the-u-s-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/08\/15\/respectful-delivery-by-the-u-s-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Respectful delivery by the U.S. Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><a title=\"Fairport, NY, Letter Carrier Barb McMahon strives to deliver her customers\u2019 packages with care.\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28616]\"><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\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BestPrac14_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"USPS employee holding package\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Fairport, NY, Letter Carrier Barb McMahon strives to deliver her customers\u2019 packages with care.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barb McMahon treats every package like it\u2019s her own.<\/p>\n<p>This attitude comes naturally to the Fairport, NY, letter carrier, a 20-year USPS veteran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a stay-at-home mom taking care of kids before I started at the Postal Service, and now I have 500 customers to take care of,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery Operations VP Kevin McAdams says employees like McMahon represent the dependability customers expect from USPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes dedicated and caring employees to deliver the Postal Service brand successfully every day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon has three tips for her fellow carriers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Be cognizant of cameras.<\/strong>\u00a0In the age of camera phones and social media, people who serve the public are sometimes caught behaving unprofessionally. \u201cAlways act the way you should regardless of whether or not someone is watching,\u201d McMahon says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Take your time.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cFight the pressure to rush\u201d through deliveries and use the necessary time needed to avoid tossed and damaged mail, she says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Have integrity.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cTreating packages with respect is the right thing to do,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>As far as McMahon is concerned, delivering with care is smart business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mail is our product and we have to present it in a cared for way,\u201d she says. \u201cIf it\u2019s important to the sender, it\u2019s important to the recipient and it\u2019s important to the Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: USPS News Link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairport, NY, Letter Carrier Barb McMahon strives to deliver her customers\u2019 packages with care. Barb McMahon treats every package like it\u2019s her own. This attitude comes naturally to the Fairport, NY, letter carrier, a 20-year USPS veteran. \u201cI was a stay-at-home mom taking care of kids before I started at the Postal Service, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","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=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20622,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}