{"id":171,"date":"2007-11-28T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/holiday-post-office-blues.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T21:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:40:06","slug":"holiday-post-office-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/holiday-post-office-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Post Office Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been to the post office recently? I really planned and organized this year so that all of the packages I had to send out of town were actually sent before Thanksgiving. However, one thing I didn&#8217;t plan for was <strong>running out of stamps<\/strong>. I was the only person in the post office line who didn&#8217;t have any packages in my arms&#8230;. I felt somewhat out of place there. And, I also felt like an idiot for being able to get the obvious post office tasks done early&#8230; just to be standing in a long queue in order to buy stamps.<\/p>\n<p>I do most (if not all!) of my holiday shopping online. Of course, that means that I pay for each item&#8217;s&nbsp;postage two different times, but I prefer getting the items so that I can wrap them, and then repack them. The online shopping is so convenient that I feel like I should do something personal&#8230; cutting the glitzy paper and adding the bright bow makes me feel like I have selected the gift personally&#8230; There&#8217;s something about&nbsp;actually having&nbsp;the item in my hands.<\/p>\n<p>To get back to the point I was going to make at the beginning of this blog&#8230;. If you did your planning and have already sent out the packages you have to send out&#8230;. I hope you don&#8217;t run out of stamps! Your feeling of &quot;Wow! I beat the mad rush!&quot; will soon be a thing of the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, you would think that someone who admits to doing almost 100%&nbsp;of her holiday&nbsp;shopping online should be able to do something as easy as ordering stamps online, also!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been to the post office recently? I really planned and organized this year so that all of the packages I had to send out of town were actually sent before Thanksgiving. However, one thing I didn&#8217;t plan for was running out of stamps. I was the only person in the post office line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2L","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}