{"id":22654,"date":"2018-02-21T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22654"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:20:40","slug":"family-friends-grieve-usps-worker-killed-on-mail-route-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/02\/21\/family-friends-grieve-usps-worker-killed-on-mail-route-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, friends grieve USPS worker killed on mail route Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/wave.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=93769477;hostDomain=www.wave3.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=14141595;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) &#8211; Family and friends are mourning a postal worker who died when her car went off the road Saturday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department identified her as 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler of Hanover, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Her car was found overturned in a creek along her postal route off East Little Brushy Fork Road in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just an unfortunate thing,&#8221; said Dave Thomas, Chief Deputy Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Bright flowers stand out at the spot where 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler died Saturday. Kappeler drowned Saturday when the 1994 Suzuki Sidekick she was driving went off the road, according to Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department says she was reported missing by her co-workers at the post office in Madison around 7:00 p.m. when she didn&#8217;t come back from her route. Her last delivery was made after 3:00 p.m. Kappeler was still driving her mail route when her car went into the creek, Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were advised that she had a predetermined route that she had to follow,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;Deputies from Jefferson to Switzerland County along with postal workers went out to the area and searched.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One neighbor tells me he was one of the first people down here with responders when they found her car flipped over in the creek. They jumped down to get her out but once they got the car opened, he said he knew they were too late to save her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that she had driven off the south side of the road and overturned,&#8221; Thomas said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wave3.com\/story\/37551190\/family-friends-grieve-usps-worker-killed-on-mail-route-saturday\">WAVE 3 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22655\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Teelah-Kappeler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Teelah-Kappeler.jpg 392w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Teelah-Kappeler-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) &#8211; Family and friends are mourning a postal worker who died when her car went off the road Saturday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department identified her as 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler of Hanover, Indiana. Her car was found overturned in a creek along her postal route off East Little Brushy Fork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22654","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\/22654","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=22654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22656,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions\/22656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}