{"id":8180,"date":"2014-08-08T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8180"},"modified":"2014-08-08T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:15:58","slug":"south-carolina-carrier-marks-50-years-with-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/08\/08\/south-carolina-carrier-marks-50-years-with-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina carrier marks 50 years with USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin: 0.25em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u2018The best service there is\u2019<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; line-height: 16px; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">South Carolina carrier marks 50 years with USPS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Myrtle Beach, SC, Letter Carrier Arthur Ray began his postal career in 1957. More than a half-century later, he\u2019s still going strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u201cThe Lord gave me a heart to serve and I guess this is the best service there is,\u201d Ray<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/2014\/08\/04\/4393290\/myrtle-beach-postal-carrier-art.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\"><em>told the Myrtle Beach Sun News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Ray, 75, celebrated his 50th year with the Postal Service in July. He began his career in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, but later took off several years to try other jobs, including truck driving and law enforcement. Every time one of those jobs ended, Ray returned to USPS. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Letter-carrier-arthur-ray.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8181\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Letter-carrier-arthur-ray.gif\" alt=\"Letter-carrier-arthur-ray\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u201cI guess the Lord wants me here, so after a while I thought I\u2019d better stay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Ray, who relocated to South Carolina to escape Ohio\u2019s harsh winters, usually works from 7:30 a.m. to about 4 p.m. He rarely calls out sick and arrives early to the mailroom every day, the Sun News reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Ray told the newspaper he sometimes thinks about retiring but plans to work as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u201cIf you like people and you like to serve, this is the job for you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\nvia USPS News August 07, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The best service there is\u2019 South Carolina carrier marks 50 years with USPS Myrtle Beach, SC, Letter Carrier Arthur Ray began his postal career in 1957. More than a half-century later, he\u2019s still going strong. \u201cThe Lord gave me a heart to serve and I guess this is the best service there is,\u201d Ray\u00a0told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","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=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8182,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions\/8182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}