{"id":5060,"date":"2010-08-07T01:44:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2010-08-07T01:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:44:32","slug":"to-stamp-or-to-stamp-out-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2010\/08\/07\/to-stamp-or-to-stamp-out-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Stamp Or To Stamp Out. That Is The Question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between E Mail, Facebook, Twitter, fax  machines, chat rooms, cell phones, text messages, and the ability to pay  bills on line, people are discovering (big surprise) that they really  don&#8217;t need to use the post office anymore. I think the only remaining  usage comes from grandma sending out her Christmas cookies each year and  good luck teaching grandma that even <em>she <\/em>could use Fed Ex  instead.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, the day the post office or any other government  agency is shut down, start strapping on your skates, because it will  mean hell had frozen over.<\/p>\n<p>And so, what is the post office doing instead?\u00a0 They are threatening to  cut back on their services. Did I miss something? Exactly what has  changed?\u00a0 Cheers, everybody.\u00a0 Maybe the government will admit we need no  more mail carriers and instead use that stimulus package (excuse me,  &#8220;Jobs Bill&#8221;) to start funding stamp collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between E Mail, Facebook, Twitter, fax machines, chat rooms, cell phones, text messages, and the ability to pay bills on line, people are discovering (big surprise) that they really don&#8217;t need to use the post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-bobsmusings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}