{"id":202,"date":"2006-01-04T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T21:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-01-25T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:34:00","slug":"the-problem-with-mail-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/04\/the-problem-with-mail-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with mail order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth and convenience of shopping on the internet is dampened by one major problem: the goods have to somehow get from them to you.<br \/>\nThe problem is that in order to pay for your purchases, you have to earn a living at your job. This means you&#8217;re out of the house during the day, precisely when the post office or courier try to deliver to your house.<br \/>\nSo, why not have it delivered to another address I hear you say, perhaps your place of work? Unfortunately, the rise in credit card fraud has put paid to that &#8211;  several internet retailers refuse to deliver to anywhere other than the cardholder&#8217;s address.<br \/>\nWhat is required is for the credit card companies to allow you to register a second authorised address on your credit card account to which deliveries can be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth and convenience of shopping on the internet is dampened by one major problem: the goods have to somehow get from them to you. The problem is that in order to pay for your purchases, you have to earn a living at your job. This means you&#8217;re out of the house during the day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}