{"id":1576,"date":"2013-12-18T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:52:15","slug":"wednesday-18-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/18\/wednesday-18-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 18 December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:52 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m building chemistry kits today. When I got up at 0645, I had four in stock. I&#8217;ve shipped two of those so far this morning. I&#8217;ll build another dozen today and hope those&#8217;ll hold us for at least a couple days. Then I need to get to work on more forensic kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Yesterday, when I handed that replacement kit to Danny, our mailman, I mentioned that the first one had disappeared somewhere between Winston-Salem and the Greensboro sorting facility. He was extremely apologetic, but I told him that I wasn&#8217;t at all upset. Losing one out of 500 packages is an acceptable loss rate as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">What is strange is that in the last couple of weeks the USPS has apparently changed its definition of &#8220;days&#8221;. Until a couple of weeks ago, if I shipped a package Priority Mail 2-Day, it&#8217;d show the delivery date as two days after the mailing date. Now, although the label still says &#8220;Priority Mail 2-Day&#8221;, the delivery date is shown as three days after the shipping date. I haven&#8217;t shipped any packages lately that show Priority Mail 3-Day, but I assume that they&#8217;d in fact take four days. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:52 &#8211; I&#8217;m building chemistry kits today. When I got up at 0645, I had four in stock. I&#8217;ve shipped two of those so far this morning. I&#8217;ll build another dozen today and hope those&#8217;ll hold us for at least a couple days. Then I need to get to work on more forensic kits.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, when I handed that replacement kit to Danny, our mailman, I mentioned that the first one had disappeared somewhere between Winston-Salem and the Greensboro sorting facility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/18\/wednesday-18-december-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 18 December 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}