{"id":515,"date":"2007-02-26T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2007\/02\/26\/postage-rates-over-time\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:43:44","slug":"postage-rates-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2007\/02\/postage-rates-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Postage Rates over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070226\/ap_on_bi_ge\/postal_rates\">this news item<\/a>, and as a means to procrastinate my packing before the <a href=\"http:\/\/houston.craigslist.org\/apa\/283463585.html\">movers arrive<\/a>, I decided to see what the inflation-adjusted price of a stamp was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rates1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rates1.jpg','popup','width=918,height=509,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rates-tm.jpg\" height=\"199\" width=\"360\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"US Postage Rates 1958-2007\" title=\"US Postage Rates 1958-2007\" longdesc=\"Inflation-adjusted price of a 1st Class stamp in constant 2007 dollars\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is cost of mailing a one-ounce letter by First Class mail.  I got the rates from a list compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akdart.com\/postrate.html\">Andrew Dart<\/a>, and did the inflation adjustment using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minneapolisfed.org\/Research\/data\/us\/calc\/\">CPI Calculator<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minneapolisfed.org\/\">Minneapolis Branch of the Federal Reserve<\/a> has up.  The jagged line shows how inflation &#8216;ate away&#8217; at the cost of the stamp before each increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing this news item, and as a means to procrastinate my packing before the movers arrive, I decided to see what the inflation-adjusted price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-8j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}