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Postage stamp prices go up on Sunday
Duncan Banner The rate increase was prompted by the recession, which resulted in a loss of money made off stamps between 2008 and 2009, according to postal officials. The rate increase was proposed as temporary, not lasting longer than two years. Davis said the … |
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People calling a federal phone number seeking information on how to order Duck Stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error that the government says would be too expensive to correct. More: continued here
Cash, stamps taken from pawn shopRome News TribuneAn unknown suspect pried open a desk drawer, removing a cash box with $390 cash and $200 in stamps inside. Police reported the suspect entered Title Pawn by … More: continued here
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Waterbury Republican American Which Comes First: A $1 Postage Stamp, or a Chicago Cubs World Series?Businessweek (blog)The U.S. Postal Service, fresh off a decade of rapid stamp price inflation, is at it again: It wants to raise the price of first-class stamps, to 49¢ from 46¢. If this 6.5 percent increase takes effect next year,…
Car Stolen from Driveway; $44 in Stamps Taken from OfficePatch.comBy Laura Houser Birmingham police say $44 in postage stamps was discovered missing from an office on South Old Woodward Avenue. A car was taken from the 1300 block of Cedar on Tuesday morning, Birmingham police report. The car's owner told police they … More: continued…