{"id":24271,"date":"2018-09-12T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24271"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:30:25","slug":"usps-service-alerts-powerful-hurricane-menaces-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/usps-service-alerts-powerful-hurricane-menaces-east-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Service Alerts: Powerful hurricane menaces East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Powerful hurricane menaces East Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9\/11\/18 &#8211; Federal officials warn Hurricane Florence is the strongest storm in decades to threaten the Carolinas and surrounding regions. The hurricane, now a Category 4, is expected to make landfall tomorrow night or Friday morning, bringing vicious winds, record rainfall and life-threatening storm surges. States of emergency have been declared in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>As we monitor the storm, our top priority is the safety of our customers and employees. Many Post Offices in the projected path of the hurricane have suspended operations. Additionally, deliveries and other services in the region will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>For information about impacts in your area, refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/service-alerts\/welcome.htm\">USPS Service Alerts<\/a>. Under \u201cResidential customers,\u201d click on \u201c<strong>Service disruption alerts<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19525\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-80x55.jpg 80w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1.jpg 416w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/usps1-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful hurricane menaces East Coast 9\/11\/18 &#8211; Federal officials warn Hurricane Florence is the strongest storm in decades to threaten the Carolinas and surrounding regions. The hurricane, now a Category 4, is expected to make landfall tomorrow night or Friday morning, bringing vicious winds, record rainfall and life-threatening storm surges. States of emergency have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271","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=24271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24273,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions\/24273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}