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...email is the latest incarnation of a scheme that has persisted on the Internet at least since 1996, and for many years before that in postal mail. The financial crimes division of the U.S. Secret Service says it receives upwards of 100 complaints a day about the Nigerian scheme-commonly known as the 4-1-9 scam, after the section in the Nigerian penal code that deals with financial crimes...
This time, the Postal Service may have gone...
...quite possible that this latest news will push me over the edge. I know that e-mail has taken a lot of the Postal Service's business away, and I think that's rotten. If you ask me, that blinking e-mail icon is pretty cold comfort compared to the sight of an envelope stuffed fat with news and photographs. But that's progress, I guess. And I don't think anyone?s going to abandon e-mail anytime soon...
...help prop up its balance sheet, Amtrak is busy building its mail and express business, which hauls letters, packages and even freight for such clients as the Postal Service and UPS. Within a few years, that too could bring in a few hundred million dollars in additional revenue...
...would be like this for the next two years, really: Bush traveling the country, working the money guys, giving his spiel and sucking up most of the oxygen in the G.O.P.'s big tent. It would not be long before the Postal Service began delivering trays and trays of envelopes to the Virginia offices of the group hired to sort the dollars. The money would come in at a rate of about $300,000 a day, three times as much as any candidate had ever raised. The money machine would capture so much cash that Bush could not only...