{"id":218,"date":"2006-11-10T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-01-03T23:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T04:11:01","slug":"postage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Postage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of postage in Canada seems to be going up really quickly: it&#8217;s at 51 cents now (as far as I know), but I still have quite a few 49 and 50 cent stamps. I got some penny stamps a while ago to make up the difference and use up my old ones, but I kinda wondered if they would work if I used them as-is. I think they would: after all, that was the cost of postage when they got the money from me, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure of that. I know that right after the price hike, I sucessfully got a letter from my mom with just 50 cents on it. In the office today, someone else had the same question: &#8220;think they&#8217;ll deliver this even though it&#8217;s a penny short?&#8221; &#8220;Heck,&#8221; I said &#8220;tape a penny on the front and see what happens.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qn4196\/is_20060207\/ai_n16043915\">Turns out I&#8217;m not the first one to think of this.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of postage in Canada seems to be going up really quickly: it&#8217;s at 51 cents now (as far as I know), but I still have quite a few 49 and 50 cent stamps. I got some penny stamps a while ago to make up the difference and use up my old ones, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}