{"id":945,"date":"2008-10-22T05:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=945"},"modified":"2008-10-22T05:35:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:35:27","slug":"postal-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Postal Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The postal service is in trouble.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/free-postcards\/free-cards-with-postage\"><strong>I&#8217;ve written about it before.<\/strong><\/a> The internet and email have critically wounded their revenue stream.\u00a0 The USPS will be the Amtrak of our children&#8217;s generation.\u00a0 But they are trying to survive and this photo shows an example of there willingness to experiment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2941833043\/pa100002jpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3288\/2941833043_edd114fe78_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"PA100002.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A mobile post office on a downtown streeet in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Good Idea!\u00a0 But it won&#8217;t stop the decrease in mail.\u00a0 Eventually there will be so little volume that even the media and the politicians will notice.\u00a0 But you will be able to say &#8220;I knew that.&#8221; because you read it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postal service is in trouble.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve written about it before. The internet and email have critically wounded their revenue stream.\u00a0 The USPS will be the Amtrak of our children&#8217;s generation.\u00a0 But they are trying to survive and this photo shows an example of there willingness to experiment: A mobile post office on a downtown [&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":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-free-postcards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}