{"id":30158,"date":"2021-02-13T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=30158"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:23:29","slug":"chicago-letter-carriers-union-asks-for-outside-help-to-deliver-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2021\/02\/13\/chicago-letter-carriers-union-asks-for-outside-help-to-deliver-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago letter carriers union asks for outside help to deliver mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=10334800\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago residents stood in the bitter cold Friday trying to track down mail that is not being delivered to their homes. For many, it&#8217;s an issue that&#8217;s been going on for months.<br \/>\nDeetreena Perteet and others who live here in her Bronzeville building said they haven&#8217;t gotten mail deliveries in more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got money in that mailbox. I want it. I got bills in that mailbox, I want to take care of my bills,&#8221; Perteet said.<\/p>\n<p>She wants that most basic of services afforded to all Americans: USPS mail delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All we want is our mail. We&#8217;re not asking you to do anything other than deliver us our mail, please,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>There are several things the United States Postal Service said are to blame for these major mail delays. One is staffing shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic. USPS says it&#8217;s bringing in extra resources, but learning a new route takes time. Also, weather. Winter snow and ice can slow mail carriers down.Later start times for letter carriers to cut down on overtime may also slow down service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now those staffing shortages are even more amplified,&#8221; said Chicago Letter Carrier Union President Mack Julion, referencing COVID-19. He said the union has been talking with USPS about staffing shortages for two years. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/usps-chicago-mail-lost-no-delivery\/10334240\/\">ABC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29891\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Delayed-Mail-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Delayed-Mail-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Delayed-Mail-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Delayed-Mail.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago residents stood in the bitter cold Friday trying to track down mail that is not being delivered to their homes. For many, it&#8217;s an issue that&#8217;s been going on for months. Deetreena Perteet and others who live here in her Bronzeville building said they haven&#8217;t gotten mail deliveries in more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30158","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\/30158","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=30158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30160,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions\/30160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}