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13WHAM-TV Postal service proposes 3-cent rate hike for stampsUSA TODAYFirst-class postage stamps could rise to 49 cents starting in 2014 under a Wednesday proposal by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service. The increase would raise about $2 billion in additional revenue a year. Under the plan, first-class mail postage …Postal Service …

By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The financially strapped United States Postal Service is paying a futurist more than half a million dollars to assess the future of stamps as the agency struggles to raise revenues. The Postal Service will pay Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, which describes itself as a futurist …

The first and only envelope to be postmarked on the surface of the moon is now on display as part of the world's largest postage stamp gallery. More: continued here

Postal service proposes three-cent rate hike for stampsUSA TODAYFirst-class postage stamps could rise to 49 cents starting in 2014 under Wednesday proposal by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service. The increase would raise about $2 billion in additional revenue a year. Under the plan, first-class mail postage would … More: continued …

Mailing a letter will cost three cents more, or 49 cents, starting in January, according to a proposal from the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday. The price of sending a postcard would also go up by a cent … More: continued here

Postal Service pays futurist to study stamps' fateNBCNews.comThe Postal Service will pay Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, which describes itself as a futurist marketing consultancy, $565,769 to provide "analysis and recommendation on the future of stamps," according to documents acquired by Federal Times, which … More: continued here

Space.com 'Moon Mail' and Space Stamps Now on Display in World's Largest Postal GallerySpace.comThe first and only envelope to be postmarked on the surface of the moon is now on display as part of the world's largest postage stamp gallery. The Smithsonian opened its new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery …

The Racial Resentment Behind GOP's Cuts in Food StampsThe RootThe House Republicans' recent vote to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program is a demonstration of their animosity toward Americans of color, Brittney Cooper argues in a piece for Salon. Cooper describes how the Republican Party, beginning in the … …

GOP Food Stamp Bill Will Increase Government SpendingReasonThe food stamp bill passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month, widely criticized for supposedly cutting the nutrition assistance program to the poor, would actually raise spending over the next decade by 57 percent … More: continued here

The Guardian 'Artemis of the wildland' and the food stamp hatersThe Guardian"There are 27 people in this neighborhood who vote and receive food stamps," one note read. "The names of these people are being posted where they can be seen by taxpayers and the neighborhood can decide who is truly …