{"id":16040,"date":"2012-10-31T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/snakes-in-a-parcel-shut-s-african-post-office\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:18:37","slug":"snakes-in-a-parcel-shut-s-african-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/snakes-in-a-parcel-shut-s-african-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes in a parcel shut S.African post office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Clerks at a South African<br \/>\npost office fled for safety when they emptied a mail bag and a<br \/>\nwhite python came slithering out.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The one metre (yard) long non-venomous snake was one of four<br \/>\nsent this week in an express parcel that arrived at the Sabie<br \/>\nPost Office, about 300 km northeast (185 miles) of Johannesburg,<br \/>\npostal officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once the python hit the floor, sorting room employees were<br \/>\nout the door, Sabie Branch Manager Mthobisi Duba said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the most traumatic experience ever in the post<br \/>\noffice,&#8221; Duba said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An official from the local parks board collected the white<br \/>\npython and the three other smaller snakes still in the parcel.<br \/>\nThe parks board is taking care of the reptiles.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The receiver of the parcel was charged with the illegal<br \/>\ntransport of animals, South Africa&#8217;s post service said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, editing by Paul Casciato)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Clerks at a South African post office fled for safety when they emptied a mail bag and a white python came slithering out. The one metre (yard) long non-venomous snake was one of four sent this week in an express parcel that arrived at the Sabie Post Office, about 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}