Dear John USPS, the last thing i have time for right now is a blog entry, and yet here it is. in two days i'll be moving, and so it was, at one of the worst possible times, that i sold a dvd on amazon. don't get me...
Canada Post has raised it's rates, effective Monday. The 100% price increase of thick envelopes is drawing criticism from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which says it opposes "arbitrary...
Turns out Lego is for more than building castles these days."Ringleader Jose David Diaz-Ortega, 28, and his eight cohorts used associates in Puerto Rico to ship the coke-laden toy kits to addresses in Manhattan...
created by Leonard Brody | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 668 views | 3 recommendations | 3 comments
A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound mailman is lobbying to wear a kilt on the job, but so far with little success. The National Letter Carriers' Association rejected his idea in July despite impassioned claims of chafing,...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1110 views | 2 recommendations | 13 comments
Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide, is implicated in the 2001 anthrax attacks New Jersey. Following a breifing for family members of the victims, the info was made public by the FBI."The Justice Department released hundreds of pages of documents related to the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 115 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.comDirect making firms are used for charities even political candidates. But does your money really get to the charity or candidate you wrote out that hard...
Beverly Hills (ANTARA News) - Frank Sinatra's blue eyes will stare out
from a commemorative postage stamp to be issued 10 years after the
legendary crooner's death, US Postal Service officials said...
created by uusjio | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 317 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In a year when U.S. and Canadian citizens were more or less forced to acquire passports en masse, there was very little comfort to be offered for the time and money travelers spent papering up. Hours of lines,...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 644 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"I think the basic idea behind a film like Postal is to show that we are all going in the wrong direction. It’s not only about George Bush or Osama bin Laden (in our movie the two are good buddies). We show kind of a Team America attitude that it’s all so fucked up and...
created by Kailas | 2 years ago 341 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Royal mail brought the strike to a head this evening with a court order. The workers have been striking on and off for months for what they see as real concerns for their jobs.
Most of the public are unaware of...
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"Business leaders have attacked the "six-day" postal strike, due to start this week.
David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said thousands of small firms would be affected, but warned disruption would damage the postal service in the long run.
He...
created by AlanEvans | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 214 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Postal workers across the UK began a two-day strike at noon today, heralding days and possibly weeks of disruption for businesses and consumers.
The strike was called by the Communication Workers Union, and went ahead after last-ditch talks with Royal Mail this morning...
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"Thousands of Royal Mail managers could be balloted for strikes in a dramatic escalation of the industrial unrest currently hitting the postal organisation.
Unite said its 12,000 members working as managers in the...
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"n the Lower 9th Ward, Robert Green Sr., 52, who lost his mother and granddaughter during the storm, feels like the government has failed him. He's still waiting to receive his money from Louisiana's Road Home...
created by merrie | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 403 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"In the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has enacted a law granting state security agents full authority to surveil landline and mobile phones, postal mail and what little internet is available anyway, according to a government notice published on...
created by nk | 2 years ago 220 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments