{"id":25967,"date":"2017-01-20T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/going-postal-over-east-hill-office\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:30:00","slug":"going-postal-over-east-hill-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/going-postal-over-east-hill-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Going postal over East Hill office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciate that the City Council is seeking answers to stuck railroad crossing gates. How about looking into another real problem &#8230; the East Hill Post Office on 240th?<\/p>\n<p>In the eight years I&rsquo;ve lived here, many times I have stood in a line of 12 or more residents waiting to conduct business and have seen clerks close their windows and go on breaks, leaving only one clerk and a growing line of customers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 the lobby was locked on evenings and weekends. Still is. The drive-up mailbox was vandalized in September 2016, removed and has still not been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>How many accidents and fender benders from parking lot traffic jams must occur before there will be action or the drive-up mailbox replaced? That driveway is closed off with barrels and cones as I write this.<\/p>\n<p>Someone associated with the City of Kent must use this post office. I now go the Auburn Post Office, so I don&rsquo;t go postal. And, by the way, the lobby there is open 24\/7\/365. What a concept, providing customer service to the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Neil Larsen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciate that the City Council is seeking answers to stuck railroad crossing gates. How about looking into another real problem &#8230; the East Hill Post Office on 240th?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}