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Postal Service Set To Dedicate Oversized Stamp Honoring Wilt ChamberlainThe Post Game (blog)Stamps honoring Wilt Chamberlain as an American icon will be dedicated Friday in Philadelphia during the halftime of the 76ers-Thunder game. Chamberlain is one of about 30 subjects selected from a list of 40,000 stamp proposals originally generated …

Lebanon County women sentenced for fraud involving food stampsLebanon Daily NewsOne woman was sentenced Wednesday to probation for fraudulent obtainment of food stamps and another entered the ARD program. ARD is a special probationary program for first-time offenders. Participants can earn dismissal of charges if they complete … More: continued here

wilt the stilt December 4The Week MagazineIt takes years for stamps to go from conception to in the mail. First, the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee must look at about 40,000 proposals every year, and then they recommend about 30 to the postmaster general. After that, the artist has to come …

Stamps of ApprovalAnimation MagazineA few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. “So what?” you may be asking, so, so this: when the postal clerk offered me a selection to choose from, I was delighted to see among the offerings a series commemorating the 50th anniversary …

Food stamps can be replaced due to stormConcord MonitorNew Hampshire's Health Department said food stamp benefits will be replaced for people who were affected by the widespread power outages last week. Many people had spoiled food as a result of the power outages. Terry Smith, the director of the …State to …

The Sixers will hold a special ceremony for the new Wilt Chamberlain stamps. More: continued here

New York Times Postage Stamp Pays Tribute to Wilt ChamberlainNew York TimesNow, the only man to score 100 points in an N.B.A. game will become the first player from the league to be honored with a postage stamp in his image. And fittingly enough, the two versions being issued by …

Stamps.com® , the leading provider of USPS postage online and shipping software to over 500,000 customers, today announced the company has been named to Forbes magazine's "100 Best Small Companies … More: continued here

Record 1.05 million Illinois households on food stamps this ThanksgivingMadison County RecordNew data released by the Illinois Department of Human Services show a record number of Illinois households were dependent upon food stamps this Thanksgiving. More than 7,700 Illinois households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance … More: continued here

THV 11 Consumer Alert: Skimming devices used to buy stampsTHV 11Investigators have found skimmers on gas pumps and ATMs, and now postal inspectors are finding them being used to steal credit card information that's later used to purchase stamps. "They had charges, around $50 or so, from multiple post offices …