{"id":27071,"date":"2019-08-21T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27071"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:45:16","slug":"us-postal-service-delivers-on-21-year-olds-dream-of-delivering-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/08\/21\/us-postal-service-delivers-on-21-year-olds-dream-of-delivering-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service delivers on 21-year-old&#8217;s dream of delivering the mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"scripps_iframe_embed\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.scrippsdigital.com\/cms\/videoIframe.html?&amp;host=www.wcpo.com&amp;title=US%20Postal%20Service%20delivers%20on%2021-year-old's%20dream%20of%20delivering%20the%20mail&amp;m3u8=https:\/\/content.uplynk.com\/15a872c9651948e6bc41f37d582f39b3.m3u8&amp;purl=\/news\/our-community\/us-postal-service-delivers-on-21-year-olds-dream-of-delivering-the-mail&amp;story=0&amp;ex=1&amp;s=wcpo\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 On her very first day, Grace Flannery set out to be the friendliest mail carrier in Greater Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to say my name,\u201d she said, \u201cand I\u2019ll shake their hand and look and talk to them in the eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flannery joined the postal team at the Westwood Post Office Tuesday morning to fulfill her dream of being a mail carrier for a day. The 21-year-old with Down syndrome has always wanted to deliver the mail, according to her father Michael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had an internship at Children\u2019s Hospital where she was delivering mail,\u201d Michael Flannery said, \u201dand it just made it even more of a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a postal service uniform with shorts handmade by her grandmother, Grace helped sort the mail before hitting the streets with letter carrier Melissa Tilton.<\/p>\n<p>Grace did more than deliver the mail on Tuesday. She served as an inspiration to others, including her boss for the day, Cincinnati Postmaster Karen Garber. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/our-community\/us-postal-service-delivers-on-21-year-olds-dream-of-delivering-the-mail\">WCPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27073\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Grace-Flannery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Grace-Flannery.jpg 413w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Grace-Flannery-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Grace-Flannery-119x89.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 On her very first day, Grace Flannery set out to be the friendliest mail carrier in Greater Cincinnati. \u201cI\u2019m going to say my name,\u201d she said, \u201cand I\u2019ll shake their hand and look and talk to them in the eyes.\u201d Flannery joined the postal team at the Westwood Post Office Tuesday morning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27071","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\/27071","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=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27074,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions\/27074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}