{"id":27451,"date":"2019-10-18T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27451"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:16:21","slug":"halloween-decorations-in-brentwood-lead-to-mail-delivery-issue-carrier-says-decoration-is-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/10\/18\/halloween-decorations-in-brentwood-lead-to-mail-delivery-issue-carrier-says-decoration-is-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween decorations in Brentwood lead to mail delivery issue &#8211; carrier says decoration is offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/NEWS12LI.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=631273509;hostDomain=longisland.news12.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=14931374;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Halloween decorations at a home in Brentwood are stirring up some negative attention from the post office.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Beatty decorated his home for Halloween and one of the items includes a skeleton hanging from a gallows.<\/p>\n<p>Beatty says his African American male carrier told him two days ago that he finds it offensive because it includes a noose. He says the postmaster then came by and told him that his mail service would be suspended until he takes it down.<\/p>\n<p>Beatty says he&#8217;s not taking down his decoration. He says he had to pick up his mail in person Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see how the U.S. post office can tell me what I can and cannot do on my own property for a holiday,&#8221; says Beatty. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221; [PEN: we agree with Mr. Beatty] &#8211; Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/story\/41197401\/halloween-decorations-in-brentwood-lead-to-mail-delivery-issue\">Long Island News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27453 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Long-Island-Skeleton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Long-Island-Skeleton.jpg 393w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Long-Island-Skeleton-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween decorations at a home in Brentwood are stirring up some negative attention from the post office. Richard Beatty decorated his home for Halloween and one of the items includes a skeleton hanging from a gallows. Beatty says his African American male carrier told him two days ago that he finds it offensive because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27451","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\/27451","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=27451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27455,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions\/27455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}