{"id":5915,"date":"2023-06-27T05:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2023-06-27T05:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:15:23","slug":"nz-post-parcel-sorter-sentenced-for-stealing-3000-worth-of-michael-hill-jeweller-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"NZ Post parcel sorter sentenced for stealing $3000 worth of Michael Hill Jeweller watches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Elijah Kerr liked to help himself while working as a parcel sorter at NZ Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It started with a parcel he picked up from the loading bin at the Blenheim depot. He hid the item &#8211; a pet hair removal brush &#8211; in his locker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He got away with it so &#8211; he did it again. Before long the 19-year-old contractor had stolen thousands of dollars worth of items, in transit for posting, including watches that belonged to Michael Hill Jeweller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now Kerr says it was \u201cthe dumbest decision\u201d of his life, by a long shot, and happened at a stage in his life he regrets.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Kerr liked to help himself while working as a parcel sorter at NZ Post. It started with a parcel he picked up from the loading bin at the Blenheim depot. He hid the item &#8211; a pet hair removal brush &#8211; in his locker. He got away with it so &#8211; he did it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}