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All was going to plan. I even had plenty of postage stamps, more than I\u2019d need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went to the USPS website and calculated what the postage would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s when I saw the notice. Anything over ten ounces had to be mailed from the post office. The book in the envelope was just under fourteen ounces. My family has made it very clear that I can\u2019t leave the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So much for my idea of putting the envelope in the mailbox with the flag up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I\u2019m waiting to see if I can get one of my helpful family members or friends to take it to the post office for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not going to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I\u2019ve flipped the switch on my web store. You can browse the books, read the advertising copy, but not place an order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My paper books are all available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble Online, Books a Million, and other online bookstores. There are ebook versions as well, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and Google. All are good options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But books from me, autographed, and mailed by my hand are temporarily unavailable until my family allows me to go to the post office. Sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Jose, if I can\u2019t get your book mailed in the next day or so, I\u2019ll push the refund back to you. I\u2019ll let you know.
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Well, I made a mistake. I thought that although all my events were shutting down that I could still sell autographed books from home. I mean I already had my online web store where people could click the Buy link in the menu and browse the books, choose one or more and then I\u2019d sign… Continue reading Caught in a Bind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"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":[10,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}