{"id":21609,"date":"2017-11-18T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21609"},"modified":"2017-11-18T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:32:40","slug":"harahan-la-residents-fed-up-after-mail-found-abandoned-in-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/11\/18\/harahan-la-residents-fed-up-after-mail-found-abandoned-in-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Harahan, LA residents fed up after mail found abandoned in the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2804199&amp;type=video&amp;title=Harahan residents fed up after mail found abandoned in the street&amp;site=289&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=embed_preroll\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neither snow nor rain is supposed to keep the postal service away, but residents in Harahan say the only thing they&#8217;ve come to count on is their mail not getting delivered. What&#8217;s more, they claim postal workers are leaving buckets of mail abandoned on their street.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Catherine Plunkett said she&#8217;ll go days without seeing a postal worker on her block.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just wondering what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; Plunkett said.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not alone. Residents in a Harahan neighborhood say recently they can&#8217;t rely on the post office to deliver their letters<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mail service sucks,&#8221; resident Darlene Schwartz said. &#8220;It&#8217;s horrible. There&#8217;s days we&#8217;ll go without any mail at all, which there&#8217;s no way that happens between magazine subscriptions, bills. You just don&#8217;t not get any mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, one resident captured a photo, which shows buckets of mail left behind by a postal worker. The resident says the photo was taken on Soniat Avenue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/local\/harahan-residents-fed-up-after-mail-found-abandoned-in-the-street\/492768809\">WWL TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21610\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/buckets-of-mail-abandoned-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/buckets-of-mail-abandoned-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/buckets-of-mail-abandoned-124x90.jpg 124w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/buckets-of-mail-abandoned.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither snow nor rain is supposed to keep the postal service away, but residents in Harahan say the only thing they&#8217;ve come to count on is their mail not getting delivered. What&#8217;s more, they claim postal workers are leaving buckets of mail abandoned on their street. Resident Catherine Plunkett said she&#8217;ll go days without seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21609","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\/21609","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=21609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21611,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21609\/revisions\/21611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}