{"id":1772,"date":"2014-04-24T08:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T12:58:04","slug":"thursday-24-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/24\/thursday-24-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 24 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:54 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara was over at her sister&#8217;s house yesterday, when I was struck by a cunning plan. I asked if Al would be willing to let me borrow his Windows laptop overnight, to which he kindly agreed. So I waited until this morning in case we got orders overnight, and then fired it up and attempted to pay for the postage labels in my cart. No joy. I got the same &#8220;payment method declined&#8221; error message on Al&#8217;s Windows laptop. Apparently, it&#8217;s not Linux that USPS hates. It&#8217;s me personally. USPS will not accept payment from me using any credit card or PayPal on any computer running any browser. I even tried creating a new USPS account and re-entering the label data. When I tried to pay, I got the same error.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Costco says my new Windows notebook system is to arrive tomorrow. It probably won&#8217;t work either. But I already have a stamps.com account set up, so I&#8217;ll install their client software and just start using stamps.com to generate my postage labels. They charge $16 per month, which&#8217;ll probably be less expensive than paying USPS directly because stamps.com discounts postage.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:54 &#8211; Barbara was over at her sister&#8217;s house yesterday, when I was struck by a cunning plan. I asked if Al would be willing to let me borrow his Windows laptop overnight, to which he kindly agreed. So I waited until this morning in case we got orders overnight, and then fired it up and attempted to pay for the postage labels in my cart. No joy. I got the same &#8220;payment method declined&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/24\/thursday-24-april-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 24 April 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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}