{"id":9624,"date":"2018-01-29T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2018-01-28T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:11:54","slug":"a-milestone-without-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-milestone-without-fanfare\/","title":{"rendered":"A milestone without fanfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the price of a stamp hits 50 cents and media outlets give it scant coverage, did it happen at all? Is it a sign of how much people aren&#8217;t mailing things? Or is it related to the fact that stamps don&#8217;t have prices on them anymore?<\/p>\n<p>The price increase, effective Jan. 21,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2017\/pr17_062.htm\">was announced in October<\/a>. There are scattered stories from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wday.com\/news\/4390251-price-postage-goes\">smaller TV stations<\/a> and newspapers; WBBM, perhaps the most prominent place I can find it, rolled it into a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2018\/01\/12\/prices-mostly-go-up-in-2018-with-a-few-exceptions\/\">all price increases in 2018<\/a>. (Did you know Chicago has an amusement tax?)<\/p>\n<p>I learned about it when I stopped by the Traer post office \u2014 &#8220;We have the new LOVE stamps.&#8221; &#8220;Well, I think it would be a little weird to put those on my bills.&#8221; \u2014 and the price came out evenly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the price of a stamp hits 50 cents and media outlets give it scant coverage, did it happen at all? Is it a sign of how much people aren&#8217;t mailing things? Or is it related to the fact that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-milestone-without-fanfare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-offices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}