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Postage Due 1/31

Posted in postage due comic strip, postal by brian on the January 31st, 2007

Postage Due- an original comic strip by Mike Morgan

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Stupid postal tricks

Posted in Royal Mail, postal by brian on the January 31st, 2007

A sign that maybe you have too much time on your hands?

An Experiment

Take one blank postcard, write your own address on one side with a stamp, and your friend’s address on the other side with a stamp.

What do the sorting office do in this situation?! They could either

a) Send it back to me
b) Send it to Dave
c) Send it backwards and forwards, or
d) If they have a sense of humour, cut it in half with a cheese wire!

I thought that if I sent it from within my postcode area they would send it straight back to me as the nearest address. So, I popped the prepared postcard inside an envelope and sent it to a friend who lives approximately between me and Dave to send on from there.

Postal Tug of War
de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis

Video: Tax season is prime time for mail thieves

Posted in postal, taxes, video by brian on the January 30th, 2007

From KVUE TV Austin:
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Postage Due 1/30

Posted in postage due comic strip, postal by brian on the January 30th, 2007

Postage Due- an original comic strip by Mike Morgan

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Postage Due 1/29

Posted in postage due comic strip, postal by brian on the January 29th, 2007

Postage Due- an original comic strip by Mike Morgan

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Seattle P&DC

Posted in photos, postal by brian on the January 28th, 2007

From Flickr: Old pictures from the Seattle P&DC, taken “with a Kodak DC40…one of the first consumer digital cameras” (I have one of those!)

Delivering by bike in St Pete

Posted in photos, postal by brian on the January 28th, 2007

From Flickr:

Disgruntled mailboxes invade San Francisco?

Posted in photos, postal by brian on the January 28th, 2007

No- check the other Flickr tags to figure out what’s going on here…

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Valassis names new Advo President: Stock surges on analyst upgrade

Posted in ADVO, postal by brian on the January 28th, 2007

Valassis, whose acquisition of direct mail giant ADVO was marked by lawsuits and accusations of dirty dealing on both sides, announced Friday that Rob Mason, Valassis Senior Vice President, Retail and Services, will be promoted to President, ADVO Inc., effective at the close of the ADVO deal. Mason will assume general management and profit & loss responsibilities while focusing on sales and marketing efforts.

Also on Friday, Valassis’s stock price jumped almost six percent to 14.62 on Deutsche Bank Securities analyst Paul Ginocchio’s upgrade of the stock from ‘Hold’ to ‘Buy’. Friday’s closing proce is still only half of what the stock was worth a year ago, however. The share price fell sharply in June on lowered earnings estimates, and dropped further in July when the ADVO merger was announced, and still further as the ensuing litigation dragged on.

Postage Due 1/28

Posted in postage due comic strip, postal by brian on the January 28th, 2007

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