{"id":136,"date":"2011-10-21T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:05:30","slug":"usps-announces-rate-adjustment-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/usps-announces-rate-adjustment-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Announces Rate Adjustment for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some good news and some not so good news.\u00a0 The not so good news is that First Class postage is going up by a penny.\u00a0 On the flip side of that, the USPS also announced that for First Class mail, <em><strong>the second ounce is free<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This is welcome news for First Class mailers struggling to keep their mail piece under an ounce.\u00a0 The free ounce only applies to presorted mail.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Standard Mail rates are going up as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But, it&#8217;s\u00a0only going up by 2.124%, much lower than originally proposed.\u00a0\u00a0 So, in a case where your standard mail is now $0.25 per piece it will be about $0.255, or about a half of one cent more.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>All of this goes into effect on January 22, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some good news and some not so good news.\u00a0 The not so good news is that First Class postage is going up by a penny.\u00a0 On the flip side of that, the USPS also announced that for First Class mail, the second ounce [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,140],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-2012-postage-increase","tag-usps-rate-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}