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
Ever wanna lick the back of Jordin Sparks’ head? How bout Carrie Underwood? Or Kelly Clarkson?
Ok, me neither. (I’m more of a Daughtry girl myself.) But now you can lick the back of their stamps. Starting May 12, a limited edition of American Idol stamps will be distributed by the U.S. Postal Service to [...]
Bittorrent is teaming up with indie-labels and bands. A short video about Death Cab for Cutie, songs and movies from The Postal Service and The Shins, and more good stuff.
I really like Death Cab, so I just watched the video. Although I appreciate them allowing this be be shared, it’s of very poor quality.
The video [...]
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
Does anyone in here visit Whitesoap regularly to read about news stuff? Kudos, if you do! If you don’t, well, it’s got some interesting links there.
Whitesoap is:
a constantly-updated directory of interesting blogs, links, and news-stories. Readers can even suggest stories to help. Yay! ^_^
Every time I visit Whitesoap, I see that little pink animal pictured above (rabbit?) saying, “DeeCee sleeps.. a-lone, 2night.” What the heck does that mean? It was like driving me crazy despite the pink animal’s cute and furry appearance.
And then I was listening to my music when I heard myself sing, “D.C. sleeps alone tonight” and then it hit me. “Hey isn’t that what the pink animal says on Whitesoap?” I click on over to Whitesoap. Lo and behold, there’s the pink animal with its constant phrase floating to its left. I laugh my ass off until I begin to choke on my noodles for lunch.
So it turns out the phrase is from a song by i
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
