{"id":409,"date":"2011-10-02T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T16:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-10-02T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:00:16","slug":"checks-not-in-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Check&#8217;s not in the mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From news reports:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stamped mail is the category that has declined most steeply in the last decade \u2014 47 percent since 2001. \u201cStandard\u201d mail, the official euphemism for junk mail that until 1996 was called third class, dropped only 8 percent over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in mail volume has been accompanied by widening losses: $8.5 billion for 2010, and a projection of nearly $10 billion for 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From news reports: Stamped mail is the category that has declined most steeply in the last decade \u2014 47 percent since 2001. \u201cStandard\u201d mail, the official euphemism for junk mail that until 1996 was called third class, dropped only 8 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}