{"id":25493,"date":"2019-01-26T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25493"},"modified":"2019-01-26T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:49:58","slug":"winter-weather-makes-work-difficult-and-potentially-hazardous-for-postal-workers-in-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/01\/26\/winter-weather-makes-work-difficult-and-potentially-hazardous-for-postal-workers-in-billings\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather makes work difficult and potentially hazardous for postal workers in Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QHQavkjNQA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BILLINGS- 1\/25\/19 &#8211; With around a foot of new snow falling on Billings roads this week, crews are working hard to plow residential streets. Crews from FirstMark made it to the last zone of the city Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>All that snow getting pushed to the side of the road can end up impeding the working space for postal workers.<\/p>\n<p>For most of us, the wintry conditions are something we contend with on the way to work and then forget about until the drive home. But postal workers drive, walk and sometimes slide through it all day.<\/p>\n<p>Billings Postmaster Todd Snyder said in a press release that \u201cthe Postal Service treats safety and service with equal priority. \u201cThat\u2019s why we remind you to include that mailbox in your snow removal routine.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvq.com\/news\/local-news\/2019\/01\/25\/winter-weather-makes-work-difficult-and-potentially-hazardous-for-postal-workers-in-billings\/\">KTVQ Billings Montana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25494\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Billings-Montana-Carrier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Billings-Montana-Carrier.jpg 408w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Billings-Montana-Carrier-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Billings-Montana-Carrier-86x54.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS- 1\/25\/19 &#8211; With around a foot of new snow falling on Billings roads this week, crews are working hard to plow residential streets. Crews from FirstMark made it to the last zone of the city Friday morning. All that snow getting pushed to the side of the road can end up impeding the working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25493","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\/25493","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=25493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25495,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493\/revisions\/25495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}