{"id":484,"date":"2007-07-16T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/usps-united-states-parcel-smashers\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T02:37:12","slug":"usps-united-states-parcel-smashers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/usps-united-states-parcel-smashers\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS &#8212; United States Parcel Smashers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bent-pkg.jpg\" title=\"bent-pkg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image483\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/bent-pkg.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bent-pkg.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>Is it just me, or does everyone get their parcels smashed by the Postal &#8220;Service?&#8221; This box only contained a book, so there wasn&#8217;t any serious damage done. Click the image for a close-up.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that we have encountered this sort of scrunched package &#8211; once we had to return a ceramic crock which had been jolted into shards even though it was packed to withstand a ten foot drop. It looked like one of the handlers went &#8220;postal&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>When we use Fed Ex or UPS this never seems to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or does everyone get their parcels smashed by the Postal &#8220;Service?&#8221; This box only contained a book, so there wasn&#8217;t any serious&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}