{"id":3469,"date":"2013-01-30T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ka-blam.com\/printing\/front\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2013-01-30T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:11:34","slug":"a-note-about-usps-shipping-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/a-note-about-usps-shipping-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note about USPS Shipping Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/usps.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"usps\" width=\"242\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3470\" \/> We love the US Postal Service around here.  They are our default &#8212; and by far our <em>preferred<\/em> &#8212; shipping option.  And as is to be expected from time to time they have to raise their shipping rates.  They have recently done so.  Normally, we don&#8217;t even mention this sort of thing.  Shipping costs increases are expected from time to time and when they happen it&#8217;s really not a big deal.   The only reason we bring it up now is because &#8212; while US domestic shipping prices showed only a modest increase &#8212; there was a somewhat significant increase in USPS Priority Mail International shipping costs.   I&#8217;m afraid our international customers will definitely notice the difference.  We apologize, but it&#8217;s something we simply have no control over.<\/p>\n<p>I should note though that even with the increase in international shipping rates, USPS Priority Mail International is still the most cost-effective international shipping option by far.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, shipping costs are IN ADDITION to the printing costs.   The shipping charges on your Ka-Blam invoice reflect ACTUAL shipping costs (based on our best weight estimate of your order &#8212; comics are made of trees and trees can be heavy) plus a 3% handling\/transaction charge, and a nominal shipping insurance fee.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love the US Postal Service around here.  They are our default &#8212; and by far our <em>preferred<\/em> &#8212; shipping option.  And as is to be expected from time to time they have to raise their shipping rates.  They have recently done so.  Normally, we don&#8217;t even mention this sort of thing.  Shipping costs increases are expected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}