{"id":26824,"date":"2019-07-22T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26824"},"modified":"2019-07-22T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:45:24","slug":"usps-worker-delivers-amazing-rendition-of-at-last-to-celebrate-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/usps-worker-delivers-amazing-rendition-of-at-last-to-celebrate-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS worker delivers amazing rendition of &#8216;At Last&#8217; to celebrate retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1nBgicJhWic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Hayes-Bostic has never taken a singing lesson in her life, but that didn&#8217;t stop her from stunning the crowd when she performed a song to celebrate her last day at work at the postal service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At last, my postal career has come and gone. My 9 to 5, it&#8217;s over. So you can call me at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26825\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Stephanie-Hayes-Bostic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Stephanie-Hayes-Bostic.jpg 504w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Stephanie-Hayes-Bostic-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Stephanie-Hayes-Bostic-122x74.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bostic retired from the United States Postal Service in Florida after 32 years in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate her time as a USPS mail carrier, she performed her own rendition of Etta James&#8217; &#8220;At Last&#8221; with her own lyrics at her local branch&#8217;s retirement dinner in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At last, my days at the post office, they are through. No more letters to deliver, so I&#8217;m gonna forward them right back to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bostic began working for the USPS in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, area. She calls music her &#8220;first love&#8221; and has sung the national anthem at various events for the National Association of Letter Carriers. Read More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/living\/story\/usps-worker-delivers-amazing-rendition-celebrate-retirement-64440386\">Good Morning America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Hayes-Bostic has never taken a singing lesson in her life, but that didn&#8217;t stop her from stunning the crowd when she performed a song to celebrate her last day at work at the postal service. &#8220;At last, my postal career has come and gone. My 9 to 5, it&#8217;s over. So you can call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26824","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\/26824","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=26824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26826,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions\/26826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}