{"id":1755,"date":"2011-11-05T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2011-11-05T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:55:38","slug":"canada-post-grrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"canada post, grrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so i was in a realpuki swap, and after i got everything made and packaged, i trundled off to the post office to get the parcel weighed and measured.  dutifully handing over my money for postage, i was assured the parcel should arrive in 5-7 days.  imagine my surprise when a week later it showed up not at my swap partners door, but back in our mail box!  it had a sticker on it saying i owed 4 cents postage.  <em><strong>4 cents!<\/strong>.  there was almost $8 dollars postage on it and they quibble over 4 cents???<\/em><br \/>\nespecially after &#8220;they&#8221; told me how much it would cost in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>however nothing to do but go back to the post office, pay my 4 cents and send it off again&#8230;<br \/>\nwhich i did&#8230;.<br \/>\nhowever, in spite of the label clearly stating i owed 4 cents, the lady at the post office insisted on weighing and measuring it again, and informing me i didn&#8217;t owe 4 cents&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nnope, i owed <strong>7 <\/strong>cents&#8230;..<br \/>\nonly canada post  \ud83d\ude06<br \/>\nhere&#8217;s hoping it doesn&#8217;t come back again :sigh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so i was in a realpuki swap, and after i got everything made and packaged, i trundled off to the post office to get the parcel weighed and measured. dutifully handing over my money for postage, i was assured the parcel should arrive in 5-7 days. imagine my surprise when a week later it showed up not at my swap partners door, but back in our mail box! it had a sticker on it saying i owed 4 cents postage. 4 cents!. there was almost $8 dollars postage on it and they quibble over 4 cents??? especially after &#8220;they&#8221; told&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[227,73,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}