{"id":747,"date":"2011-01-13T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:48:45","slug":"postal-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Postal Oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the postal mail forwarding system.<\/p>\n<p>I sent out Xmas cards last month, and as usual, one of them came back. The sticker on it said that the forwarding time had expired, but <em>had the correct forwarding address printed on it<\/em>. If the USPS is going to go to the trouble of figuring out the forwarding information, why didn&#8217;t they just deliver the card? After all, they already did most of the work. I paid for the card to go <em>somewhere<\/em> and they know where it needs to go. They probably delivered it almost all the way there anyway &#8211; I doubt that the forwarding database is globally accessible &#8211; and instead of delivering it the last ~10 miles, they send it back to me, a distance of 1700+ miles.<\/p>\n<p>Why not simply make the forwarding time a lot longer, and when it expires, discard it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the postal mail forwarding system. I sent out Xmas cards last month, and as usual, one of them came back. The sticker on it said that the forwarding time had expired, but had the correct forwarding address printed on it. If the USPS is going to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}