Postage Increases

[Shaun Reilly]

If you haven't heard postage is going up this month. 1st class is going up 3 cents and postcards are going up 1 cent.

http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_077.htm

If you plan on doing a lot of in house direct mail it is probably worth stocking up on forever stamps.

Really we all should have done this last week to write it off as a 2013 expense but since that ship has sailed don't get screwed twice!

[Shaun Reilly]

BTW on the topic of missing the tax deduction I had very seriously told my wife to buy me like $2K of stamps as a Christmas present (with the receipt :) ). Because of some travel and various family obligations we didn't do our Christmas until the 28th when I found out she hadn't since she was embarrassed to buy that many stamps. With other commitments and the holiday I wasn't able to get out to the Post Office before New Years.

However like a generally good tenant that might do one thing to really piss me off I decided to focus on the good and didn't file the paperwork to get rid of her. :)