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New Zealanders Will Be Able To Buy Bilbo & Gandalf Stamps With ‘Hobbit’ Legal...
(New Zealand Post) If there was a common currency* used in Middle Earth, Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey would’ve totally been famous enough to have their faces grace coins all over the land. But...
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Cash-Strapped USPS Raising The Price Of A Stamp By A Penny Starting Sunday
(Triborough) It’s a brand new year but already the cash-strained United States Postal Service is showing that it’s feeling the financial heat that kept zapping it in 2012. Starting on Sunday, the price...
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One Way Or Another, You’re Going To Pay To Use DYMO/Endicia’s Stamp-Printing...
It seemed like such a good plan. For their small businesses, several of our readers use postage printers from DYMO. The software that goes with these printers comes in two versions: free and $10 per...
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USPS Seeks Price Increase On Stamps, Pays Futurist $565K To Mull Over Future...
(Chris Rief)You know those stamps you use maybe once or twice a month? They could soon be slightly more expensive after the USPS Board of Governors has requested a three-cent price increase on...
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Your Eyes Do Not Deceive You: USPS Price Hike Brings Cost Of A First-Class...
(Maulleigh)Remember when it only cost a quarter to instantly get in touch with someone from a payphone? Then we all got nostalgic when the price started creeping up, until cell phones made that fond...
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World’s Most Valuable Stamp Sells For A Record $9.5 Million
(Sotheby’s)If you’re like most people, the most expensive stamp you have in your possession is probably valued at around, oh, whatever the current price for postage is. High five! But among serious...
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Planning Ahead: USPS Advertises Christmas Stamps In June
We’ve chronicled the financial problems of the U.S. Postal Service, and it’s great that they’re seeking out new revenue sources. This prominently-placed poster in reader Chris’s local post office...
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Why A Village With 500 Residents Mails More Than 10,000 Christmas Cards From...
(Wisconsin Rapids Tribune)How is it possible that in a village that boasts a population of only about 500 people sends more than 10,000 Christmas cards from its post office every year? Is it because...
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USPS Proposes Price Increase For Postcards, International Mail; Cost Of...
(Stephen Butterworth)The United States Postal Service’s quest for financial stability might be hitting consumers’ pocketbooks come April if the agency’s proposed price increases gets the go-ahead. The...
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USPS Will Cut Postage Rates This Weekend, Isn’t Happy About It
If you’ve been stocking up on Forever stamps since the last price hike at the beginning of 2014, we have some bad news: those the price of first-class stamps will fall by 2¢ down to 47¢ this weekend....
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