{"id":7823,"date":"2016-01-03T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2016-01-03T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T04:27:11","slug":"picking-online-items-up-at-the-post-office-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/picking-online-items-up-at-the-post-office-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Online Items Up At The Post Office To Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my project commencing in trying to find good items and service for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedollarbudget.com\/\">one dollar<\/a> or less a common barrier I have found when it comes to shopping online is the minimum purchase amount you must have to get free shipping.  Otherwise you are often charge like $5 in shipping fees where it doesn\u2019t make sense to buy that item that is $2 off the regular price as an example.  What I have noticed for a lot of online retailers though is that they give you the option to ship to a local post office in your area.  As a result, you get the shipping for free.  I used that as an example here for like a 40 cent baby item I found.<\/p>\n<p>My assumption for this is pretty straight forward as it saves the company time and money by simply dumping everything in a center of sorts.  At the same time, they probably do a ton of business with post offices as is so it would make sense.  The main negative I see is that you can\u2019t exactly request for like an express shipping option if you really needed the item now.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely a good alternative though if you see like a crazy good deal for like canned goods and don\u2019t want to spend like $50 worth of items just to get that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my project commencing in trying to find good items and service for one dollar or less a common barrier I have found when it comes to shopping online is the minimum purchase amount you must have to get free shipping. Otherwise you are often charge like $5 in shipping fees where it doesn\u2019t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[5953,2657,1113,5450,2656],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-business","tag-free-shipping","tag-online-shopping","tag-post-office","tag-shipping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/shirtfina2l.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-22b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}