{"id":9826,"date":"2015-01-24T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:49:49","slug":"video-former-mail-carrier-now-delivering-doughnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/24\/video-former-mail-carrier-now-delivering-doughnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Former mail carrier now delivering doughnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STODDARD COUNTY, MO (KFVS) &#8211; An 81-year-old Bloomfield, Missouri man delivers doughnuts to more than 100 people each week. The retired mail carrier said delivering is just what he does.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Lee&#8217;s delivery route starts in Dexter every Friday at 7 a.m. Lee carries very precious packages. The doughnuts are individually wrapped with paper towels and hand delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe does it every week,\u201d one doughnut recipient said.<\/p>\n<p>From offices to homes to local shops, everyone is sure glad to see him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Bill is a great guy doing all this,\u201d one shop owner said.<\/p>\n<p>Billy said he&#8217;s been delivering for around 50 years total. For about 40 years he carried mail, then he switched to something sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s what I&#8217;m supposed to do,\u201d Lee said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/story\/27927726\/former-mail-carrier-now-delivering-doughnuts\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/kfvs12.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=612863;hostDomain=www.kfvs12.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11064696;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"KFVS12 News \" href=\"http:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\">KFVS12 News <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/retired-carrier-delivers-donuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9827\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/retired-carrier-delivers-donuts-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"retired-carrier-delivers-donuts\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/retired-carrier-delivers-donuts-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/retired-carrier-delivers-donuts.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STODDARD COUNTY, MO (KFVS) &#8211; An 81-year-old Bloomfield, Missouri man delivers doughnuts to more than 100 people each week. The retired mail carrier said delivering is just what he does. Billy Lee&#8217;s delivery route starts in Dexter every Friday at 7 a.m. Lee carries very precious packages. The doughnuts are individually wrapped with paper towels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-gallery","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}