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Oxnard man pleads guilty to food stamp traffickingVentura County StarAn Oxnard man pleaded guilty this week to grand theft and felony trafficking of food stamps, prosecutors said Thursday. Eric Gabriel Suarez, 29, was arrested in a crackdown on store owners who illegally pay cash to food stamp recipients, prosecutors said. …

To welcome the year of the Wooden Horse, the Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost) has released specially designed stamps and souvenir sheets ahead of Chinese New Year. More: continued here

Details of some of this year’s stamps and postal stationery are slowly emerging from the U.S. Postal Service as it prepares for rate changes effective Jan. 26. More: continued here

Examiner.com U.S. Postage Rate Increase: First-class Stamps to Cost 49 Cents Jan. 26Patch.comA temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp has been OK'd bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on by the 2008 economic …

Collector finds rare sheet of stampsWaterbury Republican AmericanBUFFALO, N.Y. — A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the 1918 "inverted Jenny." Art Van …

Santa's Wife Sells 'Unique' Stamp Error to New York Customer to Make it his …Sacramento BeeMrs. Claus — a.k.a. retail associate Betty Gable — sold him one of only 100 unique stamp sheets produced to replicate the excitement behind finding the most publicized stamp error in U.S. history — the …

12 percent of South Dakotans received food stamps in 2013The Capital JournalMore than 12 percent of South Dakotans have been recipients of food stamps in 2013, an investigation by the Capital Journal shows. Through November, approximately 45,000 households a month have received assistance in 2013 through the Supplemental …and more » More: …

GLOWING STAMPS – Philippine Postal Corporation employee Perla Goco shows the newly released glow-in-the-dark National Park Development Committee stamps at the Post Office Building in Lawton, Manila yesterday. More: continued here

Feds warn NC about process time for food stampsWECT-TV6Feds warn NC about process time for food stamps. Posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:20 PM EST. Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:40 PM EST. By: Craig Reck – bio | email. Universal caseworkers are logging overtime hours, but still … More: continued …

Edmonton Journal Pa. man lands 'corrected' 1918 stampsThe Seattle TimesPa. man lands 'corrected' 1918 stamps. A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the …