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Any more or less active Internet user is certainly faced with a situation where to register at the forum or any other interesting resource required to indicate a valid address e-mail, which will be sent to the password and / or activates login link. But few people in such a situation indicates his normal address - wants to remain anonymous, and even spam, no one cancels ... You can, of course, fre
The U.S. Postal Service purchased 30,000 vehicles that run on ethanol between 1999-2005. The result? The division of the U.S. Government used more than 1.5 million additional gallons of fuel as the vehicles were found to be as much as 29 miles per gallon LESS efficient than their traditional fuel counterparts. Way [...]
As any regular customer of the US Postal Service (USPS) knows, the USPS is digging deeper and deeper into the pockets of Americans. As of May 12, the price for a first class stamp increased to $.42, a one penny increase.
News accounts of the increase include the standard phooey about how the USPS continues to
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I’ve been scooting through Canada Post and United States Postal Service web sites, looking at what cannot be mailed to various countries. I’ve come to a rather sad conclusion - I must lead a very sheltered life. While many of the items that are prohibited are downright comical, some give me pause. Examples:
“Photographic films, including plates and paper intended for photography.” Cameras cause a problem in all sorts of countries. Can’t have the public making a visual record of the government’s jackboot behaviour.
Vietnam goes one better - “Invisible ink, codes, cyphers, symbols or other types of secret correspondence, and shorthand notes.” Can’t eavesdrop on the Prols if you can’t understand what they are saying, now can you. I just love the invisible ink part. It pops up in a few cases, but it is so James Bond, or primary school. I remember the fun we had making our own invisible ink way back in grade 4.
Phones, recorders an
Yesterday the US Postal Service announced something that's sure to get all you Jedi (light and dark) excited.
Announcing a new stamp pane from the U.S. Postal Service®, featuring 15 stamps in celebration of the Star Wars 30th Anniversary. Available at your Post Office™ May 26.
And now, for only the second time in its 256-year-history, the U.S. Postal Service invites you to vote for your favorite stamp. The winning stamp will become its own stamp sheet.
Choose one of 15 iconic images: Darth Vader, Yoda, Luke Skywaker, Princess Leia and others. Ready to make history?
You may remember the R2D2 mailboxes (if you're lucky you may have seen one already) that were commissioned as part of the 30th anniversary. There was really little doubt that the stamps would follow soon.
The stamp pane, which you can see above, looks really incredible. I may have to get a hold of at least one or two of these. Check out USPSJedimaster.com for more.
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President Bush Participates in Demonstration of Alternative Fuel Vehicles at U.S. Postal Service Facility. FULL STREAMING VIDEO, U.S. Postal Service Vehicle Maintenance Facility. Washington, D.C. Fact Sheet: Twenty in Ten: Powering Large Vehicle Fleets with Alternative Fuels and In Focus: Energy, 10:39 A.M. EDT. PODCAST OF ARTICLETHE PRESIDENT: Mr. Secretary, thank you. I want to thank you all very much. Yesterday I talked with the chief executive officers of U.S. auto companies about what they're doing to help us meet the goal of reducing gasoline usage by 20 percent over 10 years. Today I've had the honor of visiting with private sector companies -- "Big Brown," FedEx, the Metro bus line, as well as the Postal Office folks, and DaimlerChrysler, as well,to talk about how we are using new technologies to convert truck fleets, bus fleets to vehicles that will be able to help meet the goal of reducing gasoline usage by 20 percent over 10 years.The reason I've come is I want the Americ
Wild!The post office is wrapping mail collection boxes in some 200 cities nationwide in a special covering to look like R2-D2. It's part of a promotion for a new stamp to be announced March 28, said Anita T. Bizzotto, the post office's chief marketing officer. "It's a little teaser for the upcoming announcement and we decided to have a little fun with it," she said. About 400 mailboxes will be covered to look like the stout droid. "When you look at a mailbox, the resemblance to R2-D2 is too good to pass up," Bizzotto said.Here's the full article.
You can learn as much or more about the attitudes of government officials by observing what they do rather than what they say. It's clear in so many ways that many elected and appointed officials at local, state and federal levels of government in the United States would love to ban or at least further restrict our right to purchase and responsibly consume beer, wine and spirits. They might not be running on the Prohibition Party line, but look at what they do in everything from excise tax increases to restrictions on where and when alcohol may be purchased or served.
It even filters down to our postage stamps. That's right: postage stamps.
You might not think it matters, but it serves to prove a point. In a country where our first President ran a distillery, the author of the Declaration of Independence was a collector of fine wine and at least one leader of the revolution was a brewer, you might expect a more favorable attitude towards alcohol among politicians. Not so and
