{"id":9435,"date":"2014-12-16T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2014-12-16T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:09:32","slug":"video-congresswoman-in-talks-with-usps-over-911-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/video-congresswoman-in-talks-with-usps-over-911-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Congresswoman in Talks with USPS Over 911 Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12.15.14 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.house.gov\/\">U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee<\/a> has spoken with leaders \u201cat the highest level\u201d of the USPS about a policy that instructs employees to first call security when they witness a medical emergency &#8211; not 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" data-pnum=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/investigations\/USPS-Policy-May-Have-Caused-Critical-Delays-in-Life-and-Death-Situation--282951031.html\">An NBC Bay Area investigation<\/a> exposed last month that the policy led to delays that may have cost the life of Sam Macasieb, a 28-year-veteran employee at the postal processing and distribution center in West Oakland. Congresswoman Lee represents California\u2019s 13th district, where the facility is located. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Congresswoman-Barbara-Lee-in-Talks-with-USPS-Over-911-Policy--285884431.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=285902231&amp;videoID=_k3uQrtXcjKh&amp;origin=nbcbayarea.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=local&amp;width=475&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/USPS-911-Policy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/USPS-911-Policy-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"USPS 911 Policy\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12.15.14 &#8211; U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has spoken with leaders \u201cat the highest level\u201d of the USPS about a policy that instructs employees to first call security when they witness a medical emergency &#8211; not 911. An NBC Bay Area investigation exposed last month that the policy led to delays that may have cost the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9435","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\/9435","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=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}