Magazines React To Post Office Cutbacks: 'The Friday Evening Post'?New York Times (blog)The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays. Magazine publishers …Newspapers, magazines will have…
You Can't Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together AgainEsquire (blog)Ten months ago, when I began reporting what would become "Do We Really Want To Live Without the Post Office?, nearly everyone I spoke with brought up cutting Saturday service because it's such an easy target — who wants bills over the weekend, … More: continued here
The Post office is defying Congress by halting Saturday mail. But why?Washington Post (blog)The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it would stop delivering mail on Saturdays in an effort to save $2 billion per year and shore up its finances. Politically speaking, this is a bold move. In the past, Congress has moved to…
Beijing, Feb. 6 — Chinese television and radio channels have been ordered to cut down on advertisements that encourage exchanging expensive gifts like luxury watches, rare stamps and gold coins as they promote "bad ethos." This is the latest instance of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) new dispensation's efforts to curtail extravagance in spending…
DHEC chief: Restrict food stamps, curb obesityWCNCCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's public health chief says further restricting what people can buy with food stamps might be a way to cut down on the state's obesity problem. Department of Health and Environmental Control director Catherine …and more » More: continued here
Washington Times Belgium's chocolate-flavored stamps get seal of approvalWashington TimesCome March 25, Belgium will launch a new postal product — a chocolate smelling, chocolate tasting stamp. “We have added a chocolate taste to the glue of the stamps,” the Belgian postal service said, in an Agence France-Presse report. “You can taste …Chocolate stamps launched by…
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TIME What the public thinks about the Post office ending Saturday mail deliveryWashington PostThe postal service plans to continue Saturday delivery of packages, which remains a profitable and growing part of the delivery business. Post offices would remain open on Saturdays so that customers can drop off mail or packages, buy postage stamps or …Is…
FedEx, UPS see no bounce from Post Office's moveBusinessweekCiti analyst Christian Wetherbee said closing some branch post offices would mean more to FedEx and UPS, because it could save them money on products that involve Postal Service delivery. FedEx offers SmartPost and UPS has SurePost. Both companies …and more » More: continued here
The number of working people using food stamps to feed their families has increased by more than 50 percent since the economic downtown in 2009. More: continued here