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...nurse assistant in Grand Junction, Colo., still can't get over the time the inspector from the bureau of weights and measures wouldn't let her sell her extra peaches at the farmers' market because she didn't have a regulation scale. "I had this old postal scale, you know, which was working fine. I wasn't trying to cheat anybody or anything," she says. "But he told me I had to go, and I couldn't come back until I had the right kind of scale...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Starting next spring, the U.S. Postal Service wants to charge you 33 cents to mail a letter. To sell the increase, which is roughly in line with the penny-a-year increases the USPS has long demanded, the service's website published a shopping list showing how prices for food items such as ice cream, salad, and yes, pork ribs, have outstripped recent stamp price increases. Come on, you can't buy a pork roast on the Web. But you can send a letter, and for a lot less than 33 cents...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Starting next spring, the U.S. Postal Service wants to charge you 33 cents to mail a letter. To sell the increase, which is roughly in line with the penny-a-year increases the USPS has long demanded, the service's website published a shopping list showing how prices for food items such as ice cream, salad, and yes, pork ribs, have outstripped recent stamp price increases. Come on, you can't buy a pork roast on the Web. But you can send a letter, and for a lot less than 33 cents...
Nothing--and everything--prepared Kevin Smith to become, as he has been called, "the King of Gen X cinema." The son of a postal clerk in Highlands, N.J., he recalls an uneventful childhood "in a white-trash town. I watched six hours of TV a day. I read comics and went to Mass on Sundays. In high school, I worked as a busboy. On weekends, we'd hang out and make crank calls and go drinking. Defining moments of my generation? When Fonzie jumped over the shark tank in Happy Days...
Hunt spoke on behalf of Harvard and accepted a special framed set of the new Marshall stamps from Dyhrkopp. Hunt said he will present this gift from the Postal Service to President Neil L. Rudenstine, who did not attend...