{"id":964,"date":"2009-05-09T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-08-14T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:51:56","slug":"usps-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/05\/09\/usps-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/\">United States Postal Service<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0keeps raising postage rates. Yet, I still wonder about this statement regarding the 2 cent increase going into effect this year.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the postal service announced price increases in February, postal officials estimated the hike will cost the average household $3 a year.\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onlineathens.com\/stories\/050909\/new_437862915.shtml\">Forever Stamps not lasting long: Brisk sales before rate hike | onlineathens.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To cost a household $3 a year, the household would need to buy 150 stamps a year. That is 12.5 a month! Obviously I am not the average household.\u00c2\u00a0I bought a set of 20 Forever Stamps about 2 years ago just after they became available. I just used my 5th one for something today. So projecting at the current usage the next year would cost me 4-6 cents if I didn&#8217;t have the Forever Stamps.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not exactly budget breaking&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If Internet usage is causing people not to send mail anymore, then I am an exemplar.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service\u00c2\u00a0keeps raising postage rates. Yet, I still wonder about this statement regarding the 2 cent increase going into effect this year.\u00c2\u00a0 When the postal service announced price increases in February, postal officials estimated the hike will cost the average household $3 a year.\u00c2\u00a0Forever Stamps not lasting long: Brisk sales before rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[45],"tags":[509,75,77,572,595,594,593],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-athens","tag-internet","tag-online","tag-onlineathens","tag-rate-increase","tag-stamps","tag-usps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-fy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}