{"id":1019,"date":"2007-03-05T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/03\/i_suppose_its_a_form_of_custom\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:44:13","slug":"i_suppose_its_a_form_of_custom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/i_suppose_its_a_form_of_custom.php","title":{"rendered":"I suppose it&#8217;s a form of customer service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the U.S. Postal Service has found a way to downplay the long wait at post offices nationwide: get rid of the clocks. The Associated Press story (published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/bizarre\/4593179.html?Brilliant\">here in the <i>Houston Chronicle<\/i><\/a>) reports that clocks have been removed from some 37,000 post offices as part of a &#8220;retail standardization program&#8221; launched last year.<\/p>\n<p>Says Stephen Seewoester, Dallas spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I suppose it&#8217;s easier than actually improving service.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/usps\/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php\"> The Consumerist<\/a> for the link, and the pithy response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the U.S. Postal Service has found a way to downplay the long wait at post offices nationwide: get rid of the clocks. The Associated Press story (published here in the Houston Chronicle) reports that clocks have been removed from some 37,000 post offices as part of a &#8220;retail standardization program&#8221; launched last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}