{"id":2452898,"date":"2020-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318711"},"modified":"2020-01-06T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:59:23","slug":"some-gratitude-for-aspen-postal-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/some-gratitude-for-aspen-postal-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Some gratitude for Aspen postal carriers"},"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 have to defend some mail carriers! I\u2019m sorry for those who have to get their mail at the post office when it is such a mess, but some postal employees are simply fantastic. Chris Hyrup has been our carrier for many years and she is always wonderful, frequently going above and beyond the job requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I wish you could all be so lucky to have someone like her. One thing you could do to change that is to begin the change you want to see \u2014 start by pretending they are awesome and thank them, give them holiday gifts, smile, clear out the front of your mailbox, etc, and I bet at least a few will rise to the occasion. We are all better at our jobs when shown gratitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Anita Rayburn<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/some-gratitude-for-aspen-postal-carriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to defend some mail carriers! I\u2019m sorry for those who have to get their mail at the post office when it is such a mess, but some postal employees are simply fantastic. Chris Hyrup has been our carrier for many years and she is always wonderful, frequently going above and beyond the job [&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-2452898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 22:23:13","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\/2452898","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=2452898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452915,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452898\/revisions\/2452915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}