{"id":282,"date":"2009-06-02T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:01:26","slug":"when-are-gift-cards-like-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"When are Gift Cards Like Cash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most cases gift cards should not be thought of as cash &#8211; they tend to lose value quickly, and you often can&#8217;t spend the last few bucks on your card. However, there is one case where you should think of them as cash &#8211; when you send them through the mail. Every week I see stories about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/news_story.aspx?id=307560\">Postal employees being busted for stealing gift cards<\/a> from the mail. If you do want to send gift cards through the Postal mail, don&#8217;t make them look like gift cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most cases gift cards should not be thought of as cash &#8211; they tend to lose value quickly, and you often can&#8217;t spend the last few bucks on your card. However, there is one case where you should think of them as cash &#8211; when you send them through the mail. Every week I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}