{"id":1491,"date":"2011-02-22T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2011-02-22T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:48:15","slug":"going-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love being a small business owner&#8230; really. <\/p>\n<p>Paypal has at some point started taking larger chunks for their percentages than I had worked into my business plan. In fact, over the course of the royalty payouts, it turns out it&#8217;s easier financially on Belfire to actually use the bank account and checks. <em>But then&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cprant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cprant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cprant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cprant-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cprant.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I went in to the PO today to pick up 21 xpresspost envelopes, the size and price I remember getting for some other documents last fall. <em>But then&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guess what? Discon-<em>freaking<\/em>-tinued. Only one size remains, and that one is $22+ per envelope. Even if Belfire could afford $462 to send the royalties and contracts, I&#8217;m not sure I would feel comfortable paying that out for something twice the size of a business envelope that would contain a sheet of paper and a check (some of which are for less than the envelope and postage!!). <em>But then&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s back to normal postage and crossed fingers that the ponies haven&#8217;t actually frozen to the ground between here and Ottawa. Judging from the number of people that have reported they&#8217;ve not received their half of the contracts? The ponies must have <em>died<\/em> in the sudden cold snaps last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Gah. Just gah.<\/p>\n<p>\/ end rant, for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love being a small business owner&#8230; really.<br \/>\nPaypal has at some point started taking larger chunks for their percentages than I had worked into my business plan. In fact, over the course of the royalty payouts, it turns out it&#8217;s easier financially on Belfire to actually use the bank account and checks. But then&#8230;<br \/>\nI went in to the PO today to pick up 21 xpresspost envelopes, the size and price I remember getting for some other documents last fall. But then&#8230;<br \/>\nGuess what? Discon-freaking-tinued. Only one size remains, and that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545,871,1,870,799,104,8],"tags":[939,565,940,941,943,268,942,944],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfire-press","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","category-new-bedlam","category-snark","tag-canada-post","tag-crap","tag-mail","tag-paypal","tag-percentages","tag-rant","tag-surcharges","tag-xpresspost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}