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22 Oct 2009 09:59

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World: Clever mail-tracking bastards of The Guardian, we salute you

The Royal Mail was about to go on strike in the U.K., so The Guardian dropped a satellite device in the mail to see what happened. This is innovative journalism. source
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08 Oct 2009 09:11

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World: The Royal Mail is makes a really good argument for e-mail

The postal service in the U.K. has widespread support for a strike. It’s bad enough that Amazon has a backup plan in case they do strike. source
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24 Aug 2009 22:51

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Tech: Yahoo: Screw it, might as well make our search super-simple

See a trend? Just like the competition, Yahoo’s search page now has almost nothing on it. They revamped lots of other stuff, too. source
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03 Aug 2009 20:18

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U.S.: Dead letter offices: The postal service wants to close some branches

  • 700 offices number of locations the post office wants to close
  • $7
    billion     size of the deficit the postal service current has source
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14 May 2009 08:27

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Offbeat: Jack Russell terriers are apparenty too much for mail carriers

One is preventing the mail service from getting to seven homes. Either the dog is a total brute or mail carriers are total wimps. source
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20 Mar 2009 20:37

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U.S.: The U.S. Postal Service is trying to recover from such great lows

  • -$2.8 billion losses the post office suffered in 2008; it’ll be worse in 2009 despite an increase in the price of stamps to 44ยข in May.
  • -5.2 billion fewer pieces of mail got shipped last quarter from the same period a year ago. Officials say it could get worse; layoffs are in the works. source
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29 Jan 2009 16:42

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U.S.: The U.S. Postal Service wants to take a day off each week

  • five days a week, the proposed cut in service the service is suggesting
  • $2-$4 billion a year, the possible cost savings from cutting a day of mail service source
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