{"id":7597,"date":"2014-05-19T14:18:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:18:22","slug":"advice-for-online-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/05\/19\/advice-for-online-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for online purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2014 &#8211; Do you use credit cards for personal purchases? If so, you should have at least two cards \u2014 one for purchases made online or by telephone and a second card for everything else.<\/p>\n<p>This advice comes from the Postal Service\u2019s Corporate Information Security Office (CISO), which points out the risk of a credit card being compromised is greater for online and telephone transactions. Using a separate credit card with a lower credit limit for these transactions reduces your exposure to potential fraud. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/credit-cards.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7598\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/credit-cards.gif\" alt=\"credit-cards\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit cards designated for online and telephone transactions are helpful because:<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t tied directly to your bank account.<br \/>\nIf the card is compromised, the impact to your daily routine is reduced while waiting for a replacement card.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s easier to track online and telephone purchases.<br \/>\nCISO said the advisory doesn\u2019t apply to official business or travel-related purchases with USPS credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Source: USPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2014 &#8211; Do you use credit cards for personal purchases? If so, you should have at least two cards \u2014 one for purchases made online or by telephone and a second card for everything else. This advice comes from the Postal Service\u2019s Corporate Information Security Office (CISO), which points out the risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}