{"id":1677,"date":"2009-04-24T06:34:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2009-04-24T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:36:14","slug":"postal-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Postal Rate Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is a Public Service announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/prices\/pricechanges.htm?from=home_ftpromo&amp;page=NewMay09Prices\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to go to the USPS site for details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>First class postage is going up two cents to 44 cents and a domestic postcard is going up a penny.\u00a0 The killer for me is that overseas postcards are now 98 cents each.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>But all of the rate increases in the world won&#8217;t save the postal service.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/postal-effort\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Read my old post on why the Post Office is doomed.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is not because they are doing a bad job.\u00a0 It is because technology has changed.\u00a0 The USPS will be the Amtrac of our childrens generation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"image001\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3466173246\/image001.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3478\/3466173246_f938ecc799_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A young admirer with a postcard <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Postcards are the lp record of the future<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>they will vanish in his lifetime<br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The record player is dead and it&#8217;s replacement the CD is dying because the IPod is a better delivery system.\u00a0 We adjusted to the low-cost high value technology.\u00a0 And we will adjust to the end of regular mail delivery.\u00a0 The countries that do it the fastest will gain a slight competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Public Service announcement: Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009 Click here to go to the USPS site for details First class postage is going up two cents to 44 cents and a domestic postcard is going up a penny.\u00a0 The killer for me is that overseas postcards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-postcards","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-r3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}