{"id":6284,"date":"2016-08-17T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblog.wpengine.com\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:59:31","slug":"uship-charitable-donation-drive-and-delivery-for-louisiana-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/company-news\/uship-charitable-donation-drive-and-delivery-for-louisiana-flood-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"uShip Charitable Donation Drive and Delivery for Louisiana Flood Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were very saddened to hear of the sudden devastation to Louisiana communities caused by recent flooding. To help the those affected\u00a0in the Greater Baton Rouge area get back on their feet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uShip<\/a> will be collecting donated goods from the Austin community today, August 17, through 5pm CST on\u00a0Friday, August 19th at our office located at 205 Brazos Street in downtown Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>We are currently looking for a service provider\u00a0to deliver these goods\u00a0from our office to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The listing can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of suggested items to donate:<\/p>\n<p>Water<br \/>\nNon-perishable food<br \/>\nHeavy duty contractor trash bags<br \/>\nShovels<br \/>\nUtility knives<br \/>\nGloves<br \/>\nCrowbars<br \/>\nLarge buckets<br \/>\nHammers<br \/>\nTape measures<br \/>\nScrewdrivers with\u00a0interchangeable heads<br \/>\nBrooms<br \/>\nMops<br \/>\nDiapers<br \/>\nBaby wipes<br \/>\nBaby formula\/food<br \/>\nPet food<br \/>\nBoxes\/Plastic tubs<br \/>\nGarbage cans<br \/>\nCleaning products<br \/>\nPillows<br \/>\nBlankets<br \/>\nNew underwear\/socks<br \/>\nNew clothes<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for any items you can spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were very saddened to hear of the sudden devastation to Louisiana communities caused by recent flooding. To help the those affected\u00a0in the Greater Baton Rouge area get back on their feet, uShip will be collecting donated goods from the Austin community today, August 17, through 5pm CST on\u00a0Friday, August 19th at our office located&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/company-news\/uship-charitable-donation-drive-and-delivery-for-louisiana-flood-victims\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news"],"acf":{"blog_post_content":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}