{"id":22021,"date":"2017-12-22T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2017-12-22T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:25:03","slug":"postal-workers-complain-of-being-dangerously-overworked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/12\/22\/postal-workers-complain-of-being-dangerously-overworked\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal workers complain of being dangerously overworked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kutv.com\/embed\/news\/get-gephardt\/postal-workers-complain-of-being-dangerously-overworked?external-id=376bb2b5e9e945618de2b7786758980f\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2014 (KUTV) Dan Cawley works in a law office relies on punctual mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have things going out that are really time sensitive that have to be replied to within a few days according to the courts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, the mailman doesn&#8217;t always show up, he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t getting mail for two or three days straight,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cawley says he&#8217;s talked with his mail carrier who complained of being overloaded with work.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not an isolated complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Get Gephardt has been approached by two separate mail carriers who vent a similar gripes. Both asked to remain anonymous to avoid being fired.<\/p>\n<p>In an email, one wrote that carriers are being forced to work &#8220;beyond 12 hours daily,&#8221; and into the dark and arguably dangerous hours of the night, &#8220;as late as 10:45.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the letter alleges postal workers are being denied necessities like &#8220;using the restroom&#8221; and &#8220;drinking water&#8221; even on hot summers days. More at <a href=\"http:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/get-gephardt\/postal-workers-complain-of-being-dangerously-overworked\">KUTV Salt Lake City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22022\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/late-as-1045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/late-as-1045.jpg 465w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/late-as-1045-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2014 (KUTV) Dan Cawley works in a law office relies on punctual mail. &#8220;We have things going out that are really time sensitive that have to be replied to within a few days according to the courts,&#8221; he said. But lately, the mailman doesn&#8217;t always show up, he says. &#8220;We weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22021","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\/22021","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=22021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22023,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions\/22023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}