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It is probably a sign of something or another that the increase to the First Class rate of 2 cents (to, I believe, $0.39) passed unnoticed until someone reminded me.<\/p>\n

I actually send mail once a month or less (with the exception of Christmas Cards); everything else is handled electronically. No doubt some future generation will find the “postage stamp” as quaint a concept as, oh, the Pony Express. The only thing of note about the postage increase is:<\/p>\n

1. What an annoying number.<\/p>\n

2. Can’t use this year’s leftover Christmas stamps next year.<\/p>\n

3. Hmm. I think I still have some 22-centers I can double up to mail stuff with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is probably a sign of something or another that the increase to the First Class rate of 2 cents (to, I believe, $0.39) passed unnoticed until someone reminded me….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/hoarding-old-stuff-pays-off-occasionally.html","url_meta":{"origin":8245,"position":0},"title":"Hoarding old stuff pays off occasionally","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Jun-12 9:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In this case it's that the 33-cent stamps I got a lot of back when I wasn't paying bills electronically have finally become pretty darned close to the 32-cent postcard rates. 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