{"id":9813,"date":"2015-01-23T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:07:18","slug":"video-carrier-tosses-4000-package-texas-resident-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/23\/video-carrier-tosses-4000-package-texas-resident-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Carrier Tosses $4000 Package – Texas Resident Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARROLLTON, TX \u2013 Steve Weinstein is asking the United States Postal Service if it’s standard procedure to toss deliveries on doorsteps after an expensive package got unceremoniously dumped on his front porch.<\/p>\n

Weinstein’s home surveillance camera caught a delivery person tossing a package several feet onto his porch Wednesday. He posted video of the incident on YouTube and is looking to the USPS for an explanation.<\/p>\n

“I just went back through the tapes to see if the carrier had delivered a package I was expecting from Japan,” Weinstein said.<\/p>\n

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As for the post office, we showed them the video and a spokesperson issues this statement by email Thursday afternoon:<\/p>\n

“We apologize for the inconvenience this customer experienced in Carrollton, TX. Postal employees take great pride in their work delivering for the American public. The Postal Service invests in training all employees to ensure the proper handling of all packages entrusted to us. If we discover an incident of a package being thrown or mishandled, we investigate and take appropriate steps to remedy the situation with the customer and to prevent future incidents by the carrier or clerk involved.<\/p>\n

A thrown or mishandled package is unacceptable and does not reflect our commitment to our customers and the careful efforts of the thousands of professional, dedicated carriers and clerks in our workforce.” – McKinney Boyd, USPS public affairs officer. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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CARROLLTON, TX \u2013 Steve Weinstein is asking the United States Postal Service if it’s standard procedure to toss deliveries on doorsteps after an expensive package got unceremoniously dumped on his front porch. Weinstein’s home surveillance camera caught a delivery person tossing a package several feet onto his porch Wednesday. He posted video of the incident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","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=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}