{"id":29857,"date":"2020-12-19T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29857"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:42:35","slug":"usps-manager-i-dont-know-if-were-going-to-get-it-there-by-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/12\/19\/usps-manager-i-dont-know-if-were-going-to-get-it-there-by-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS manager: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re going to get it there by the holidays&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe id=\"19436200-iframe\" class=\"wral-embedded-player\" style=\"width: 576px; height: 324px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/30-percent-more-than-usual\/19436200\/?version=embedded_v2&amp;player_options=%257B%2522embedded_autoplay_next%2522%253Atrue%257D\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of reasons behind delays at the post office this year, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/covid-19-cases-at-usps-raleigh-office-may-delay-deliveries\/19431197\/\">post office workers<\/a>\u00a0in quarantine to limits on overtime for postal service staff to fewer sorting machines.<\/p>\n<p>However, one longtime local United States Postal Service manager has another theory: the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/demand-for-deliveries-pushes-fedex-2q-profit-to-1-2-billion\/19434563\/\">huge amount of stuff being shipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has experienced anything like this, so it\u2019s hard to even fathom that we\u2019re going through this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The manager, who reached out to WRAL News anonymously, said that the amount of items being shipped is 30% more than it has ever been before. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/local-postal-service-manager-i-dont-know-if-were-going-to-get-it-there-by-the-holidays\/19435997\/\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29859\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Granted-WRAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Granted-WRAL.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Granted-WRAL-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of reasons behind delays at the post office this year, from\u00a0post office workers\u00a0in quarantine to limits on overtime for postal service staff to fewer sorting machines. However, one longtime local United States Postal Service manager has another theory: the\u00a0huge amount of stuff being shipped. \u201cNo one has experienced anything like this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29857","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\/29857","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=29857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29860,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29857\/revisions\/29860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}