{"id":26769,"date":"2019-07-12T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26769"},"modified":"2019-07-12T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:54:32","slug":"police-escort-coming-for-mail-delivery-to-georgia-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/07\/12\/police-escort-coming-for-mail-delivery-to-georgia-apartment-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Police escort coming for mail delivery to Georgia apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w3.cdn.anvato.net\/player\/prod\/v3\/anvload.html?key=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%3D\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ATHENS, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) &#8211; The United States Postal Service restored mail delivery to an Athens apartment on Thursday. It had been suspended because of concerns regarding crime.<\/p>\n<p>Once service was stopped, workers at Bethel Midtown Village started picking up the mail to sort it. But, that became too much. Those who wanted their deliveries had to go to the main post office to pick it up. That became a problem for some residents.<\/p>\n<p>People who live here say it started about a week before June 25 letter went up noting a \u201crash of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn employee of the management in a conversation with the postal carrier described the property as dangerous or challenging and that led the postal carrier to become concerned and back off of delivery for a number of days,\u201d said Athens-Clarke County Mayor Kelly Girtz. \u201cI believe it was absolutely overreacting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor does say a few crimes, including shootings, had been reported at Bethel Midtown Village earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Athens-Clarke County Police escorted the mail carrier to the complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that was just extremely wrong,\u201d said Welsh. \u201cThe crime is not bad where they have to be escorted with cops to put mail in the mailbox.\u201d Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/police-escort-coming-for-mail-delivery-to-apartment-complex\">Fox 5 Atlanta<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26770\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fox-5-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fox-5-image.jpg 445w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fox-5-image-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fox-5-image-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) &#8211; The United States Postal Service restored mail delivery to an Athens apartment on Thursday. It had been suspended because of concerns regarding crime. Once service was stopped, workers at Bethel Midtown Village started picking up the mail to sort it. But, that became too much. Those who wanted their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26769","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\/26769","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=26769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26771,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions\/26771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}