{"id":2452701,"date":"2019-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318414"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:43:54","slug":"aspen-post-office-has-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-post-office-has-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen post office has issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I feel the need to respond to the<a id=\"N0x1c97860N0x1d71240:N0x1c97860N0x1e91d40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-residents-going-postal-over-continued-mail-service-problems\/\"> post office article<\/a> in Thursday\u2019s Aspen Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">First off, the post office was not designed to be a landfill or recycling center. The amount of trash there is more of a behavioral problem than a staffing one. Secondly, does expecting 30 packages the day before Christmas impact the slow service any less than the apparent indifference of the staff?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I, too, have been annoyed by the slow pace and dropped mail at the Aspen post office; but like much of our infrastructure in our valley, it is understaffed, underpaid and overworked. I think that not treating the post office like a dump could go a long way toward improving efficiency and morale at the post office, as well as being a better reflection of us as a community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Peter Stouffer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-post-office-has-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the need to respond to the post office article in Thursday\u2019s Aspen Times. First off, the post office was not designed to be a landfill or recycling center. The amount of trash there is more of a behavioral problem than a staffing one. Secondly, does expecting 30 packages the day before Christmas impact [&hellip;]<\/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-2452701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:37:42","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&#039;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\/2452701","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=2452701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452714,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452701\/revisions\/2452714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}