{"id":21008,"date":"2017-09-20T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2017-09-20T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:43:37","slug":"tiny-florida-post-office-survives-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/tiny-florida-post-office-survives-irma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Florida Post Office Survives Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><a title=\"Brittany Potter, left, a highway contract driver, and Retail Associate Shannon Mitchell stand near the Ochopee, FL, Post Office this week.\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[29798]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width  wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IrmaFLpo_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"Two women stand near tiny Post Office building\" width=\"542\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Brittany Potter, left, a highway contract driver, and Retail Associate Shannon Mitchell stand near the Ochopee, FL, Post Office this week.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link 9\/19\/17 &#8211; Hurricane Irma was no match for the nation\u2019s smallest Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Ochopee, FL, office survived the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2017\/09\/13\/after-irma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">storm<\/a><\/em>\u00a0despite being in one of the hardest hit areas. At about 62 square feet, the office has been housed in a former toolshed since 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Retail Associate Shannon Mitchell sorts mail and provides retail services for the office, while Brittany Potter, a highway contract driver, delivers mail on a 131-mile route that serves 900 residents in three counties and the Miccosukee Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Ochopee is part of Suncoast District, where some employees are improvising to restore service.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Interlachen, FL, Post Office was without electricity in Irma\u2019s immediate aftermath, so employees used flashlights and headlights to sort mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely proud of Suncoast employees,\u201d said District Manager Eric Chavez. \u201cOur employees are making every effort to provide service as soon as possible to all of our customers, even in the hardest hit areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brittany Potter, left, a highway contract driver, and Retail Associate Shannon Mitchell stand near the Ochopee, FL, Post Office this week. USPS News Link 9\/19\/17 &#8211; Hurricane Irma was no match for the nation\u2019s smallest Post Office. The Ochopee, FL, office survived the\u00a0storm\u00a0despite being in one of the hardest hit areas. At about 62 square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21008","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\/21008","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=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21009,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions\/21009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}