{"id":974,"date":"2014-02-12T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=974"},"modified":"2014-02-06T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:59:56","slug":"save-the-last-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/02\/12\/save-the-last-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Last Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Turks recently did a video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHK2qotxHn4&amp;list=UU1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ&amp;feature=share&amp;index=7\">how to save the US Post Office<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t already know, the post office is losing a ton of money, and has been for quite some time. Many have discussed the possibility of privatizing the post office. Until very recently, I also believed the Post Office ought to be privatized. I later read an article in a magazine (it was a &#8220;green&#8221; hippie-type magazine, I forget the title) on how on other countries keep their post-office going: by adding a service to the post office: small, short-term loans. This loan service subsidizes the cost of delivering mail, and it has the added bonus of being a better option for low-income households who would otherwise go to a payday loan place. Pay-day loan places suck. They charge around 250% interest annually (sometimes more). If you ever feel tempted to get one of those loans: <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong>. You are selling your soul to the devil and it will be all but impossible to get free. If you need money: apply for a credit card, beg a relative or friend for a loan, overdraw your bank account, <del><span style=\"color: #000000\">rob a bank<\/span><\/del><del><span style=\"color: #000000\">,<\/span><\/del> donate blood plasma, whatever. Just don&#8217;t go to a fucking pay day loan store.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least: if you feel tempted to privatize the post office, look at how much Fedex and UPS charge to deliver a letter: it&#8217;s around ten bucks at the smallest, and in some cases much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Turks recently did a video on how to save the US Post Office. If you don&#8217;t already know,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,187,186,184,185,183],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cross-subsidize","tag-loan","tag-pay-day","tag-post-office","tag-privatization","tag-socialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}