{"id":2452634,"date":"2019-12-26T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/postal-woes-show-aspens-income-inequality\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:30:00","slug":"postal-woes-show-aspens-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/postal-woes-show-aspens-income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal woes show Aspen\u2019s income inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regarding people joking that \u201ctown is a world-class resort with third-world postal services.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can only say that the post offices I have visited in Colombia, Mexico, Belize, Republic of Georgia, Lebanon, and South Africa, to name a few, are tidier and have better service than what I\u2019ve witnessed at the Aspen post office.<\/p>\n

It is not the fault of the Postal Service employees who like so many other workers in town are underpaid, overworked, and paying higher taxes than the people who fly into Aspen on their private jets.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just say that \u201cthis town is a world-class resort with third-world income inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanessa Corona<\/p>\n

Aspen<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regarding people joking that \u201ctown is a world-class resort with third-world postal services.\u201d I can only say that the post offices I have visited in Colombia, Mexico, Belize, Republic of Georgia, Lebanon, and South Africa, to name a few, are tidier and have better service than what I\u2019ve witnessed at the Aspen post office. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 00:05:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452662,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452634\/revisions\/2452662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}