{"id":1629,"date":"2014-01-27T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2014-01-27T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:53:31","slug":"monday-27-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/27\/monday-27-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 27 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:53 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We have two chemistry kits left in stock, and two orders for chemistry kits came in overnight. Fortunately, we have all the components needed to build another 14 quickly, so that&#8217;ll be the first priority today after we get outstanding orders shipped. Then I need to assemble another couple dozen biology kits and build another two or three dozen subassemblies for chemistry kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Postage rates go up today. I haven&#8217;t looked at them in detail, but it looks like our average shipping cost will increase by about 5%. I&#8217;ve taken a quick look at the 2014 price lists for our major vendors, and it looks like the components we use a lot of will increase by 3% to 6%, with an average around 4.5%. That excludes chemicals, most of which show significant price increases every year. I&#8217;ll have to do some detailed calcuations, but it looks like our 2014 kit prices will increase by an average of maybe 5%.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara labeled about 800 bottles yesterday afternoon. She probably would have gone over 1,000 except that I ran out of labels for the bottles. But, using our patented AIT (almost-in-time) inventory management system, I have another 7,500 bottle labels due to arrive today. Not to mention empty bottles. We&#8217;re down to only a couple thousand in inventory, but I have several more cases due to arrive this week.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:53 &#8211; We have two chemistry kits left in stock, and two orders for chemistry kits came in overnight. Fortunately, we have all the components needed to build another 14 quickly, so that&#8217;ll be the first priority today after we get outstanding orders shipped. Then I need to assemble another couple dozen biology kits and build another two or three dozen subassemblies for chemistry kits.\n<\/p>\n<p>Postage rates go up today. I haven&#8217;t looked at them in detail,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/27\/monday-27-january-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 27 January 2014 &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-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}