Feb 18
TARGET readers have been thanked for their efforts in collecting 16,830 stamps for charity. Before Christmas, Sue Burgh from Skegness appealed for stamps to help the Scleroderma Society. THANK YOU: Target readers collected this huge pile of stamps over the Christmas period to help raise money for the Scleroderma Society. Sue was diagnosed with …
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Feb 17
Postal clerk Elisha Toni joins postal workers in a national day of protest against postal reform plans, in Los Angeles, in September. (Lucy Nicholson – Reuters) President Obama’s budget proposal backs allowing the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail deliveries, raise the price of stamps above the rate of inflation and recalculate how it …
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Feb 15
Once you decide to start exhibiting your stamps, you will begin to find out many of the things that are involved in the process. You will discover things, like how other collectors look at your stamps, finding out more about the stamps you are showing, and other similar stuff.Whether you are a beginning exhibitor or …
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Feb 14
The free-shipping era squeezes smaller merchants. They must match the shipping policies of larger competitors, but they don’t receive the high-volume shipping discounts that the larger companies do. Smaller merchants must pay more, in other words, for offering free shipping. There’s a company that offers high-volume shipping discounts to low-volume ecommerce merchants. The company is …
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Feb 02
By Anne-Marie Kovacs, Chief Wife These days, we know how special it is to receive a real note card in the mail. Like with a stamp on it. Handwritten and all… It’s even more special if it’s also addressed by hand… and how about if it was personalized with a photo stamp to identify to …
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Jan 24
The Canada Postal Corporation has told the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada that it has not printed stamps promoting the LTTE’s separatist agenda. According to the external Affairs Ministry, following reports in the LTTE affiliated websites and media on the alleged issue of a personalised stamp by Canada Post Corporation promoting the LTTE’s separatist …
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Jan 22
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service had not planned to fete its new “Lancaster County, Pennsylvania” stamp, which went on sale Friday.So Marguerite Keen decided to celebrate the stamp on her own.Last week, she distributed several homemade posters with an image of the new issue and gave a brief presentation at a LancasterHistory.org event in …
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Jan 09
Whether or not free coupon codes can be obtained for a food market or by using an online retail web site people like them. But the strength of totally free discounts on-line site is that often there are many browsers on a daily basis all over the world and that sole list offline retail store …
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Jan 02
Major concerns have been expressed about the future of postal services in Wales amid fears that home deliveries in rural areas could be cut while the price of stamps rises steeply. Two reviews being carried out by Ofcom, which took over as regulator for the postal industry in October, have alarmed Welsh politicians. One consultation …
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Dec 31
Arlington’s history With regard to a recent BDN article about the wreath laying at Arlington National Cemetery, the story has (and not for the first time) placed it either “in” or as “a suburb of Washington, D.C.” it is in Arlington, Va., and overlooks Washington, which was the original intention when the house was built …
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