{"id":2329,"date":"2011-06-08T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2011-06-08T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:26:55","slug":"customer-uses-eddm-to-aid-in-search-for-missing-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/06\/08\/customer-uses-eddm-to-aid-in-search-for-missing-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"CUSTOMER USES EDDM TO AID IN SEARCH FOR MISSING PET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/USPS-News2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2328\" title=\"USPS News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/USPS-News2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A DOG-GONE GOOD IDEA<br \/>\n<\/strong>CUSTOMER USES EDDM TO AID IN SEARCH FOR MISSING PET<\/p>\n<p>When Randi Slocum\u2019s dog Kaylee ran away from her Stillwater, NY, home, Slocum and her friends did what any group of concerned pet owners would do \u2014 they formed a search party and knocked on neighbors\u2019 doors looking for the chocolate Labrador mix.<\/p>\n<p>But Randi\u2019s mother, Carolyn, had a better idea \u2014 use Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) to notify residents in Stillwater and nearby Schuylerville, NY, of the dog\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Slocum, a board member of the local Postal Customer Council, had just attended an EDDM seminar given by Albany District Grow Your Business Coordinator Natalie Dolan. \u201cI knew that the best way to reach every household was through the new EDDM program,\u201d said Slocum. \u201cSince many people work all day, this would be the most likely way to reach them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the next morning, Carolyn had the mailings prepared to EDDM standards and dropped them off at the Stillwater and Schuylerville Post Offices. The flyer helped unleash a series of phone calls, and that helped lead to Kaylee\u2019s safe return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DOG-GONE GOOD IDEA CUSTOMER USES EDDM TO AID IN SEARCH FOR MISSING PET When Randi Slocum\u2019s dog Kaylee ran away from her Stillwater, NY, home, Slocum and her friends did what any group of concerned pet owners would do \u2014 they formed a search party and knocked on neighbors\u2019 doors looking for the chocolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}