Word: postalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem appears to be growing across a wide swath of the developing world, where the spread of Internet access combines with petty official corruption to create a breeding ground for digital crime. Lately, credit-card fraud has been joined with often ingenious forms of postal and shipping fraud, moving more and more U.S. companies to refuse to ship goods to such countries as Indonesia, Russia and other former Soviet republics...
...Postal Inspection Service estimates that combined domestic and international postal fraud now costs as much as $1 billion a year, up from $500 million in 1993. "International fraud is certainly an area where we are putting a lot more effort," says Tom Brady, the assistant postal inspector in charge of the Southwest division in Fort Worth, Texas. In May, Brady helped launch the Business Mailing Industry Task Force, an alliance between merchants and government agencies...
...could lead to false sightings, or if charges are filed, witness testimony could be thrown out. Nevertheless, investigators are hopeful that the discovery of the "hot box," as the mailbox is called, represents a significant break in the case. The box was one of hundreds that fed into a postal sorting center in Hamilton Township, N.J., where the four anthrax-laden letters were postmarked. The next step is to check police records of traffic and parking tickets issued in the area for any connections to scientists who are on the FBI's list of potential suspects. Authorities will also look...
...offices. The Assembly abolished the 38 seats reserved for the military and police, and rejected a call by two parties to introduce Islamic law. Increasing democratization has been contentious. Last month, President Megawati Sukarnoputri questioned whether Indonesians were politically mature enough to elect their leaders directly. U.S. Rogue Mail Postal inspectors investigating the anthrax mailings linked to five deaths last fall inched closer to a solution to the mystery. They found a mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey that tested positive for traces of the bacteria. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Dan Mihalko said the box had been sent to an army...
...local city officials have never heard of the company. And according to local police, cab drivers and a city map, there is no Li An Road in the postal code area that the FLA website lists as the site of Asia Sourcing...