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...side, yesterday's e-mail, which was co-signed by HAA director of College Alumni Programs Courtney D. Shurtleff and HAA executive director John P. Reardon '60, extended alumni the options of trading their books in when they're in town for their 35-year reunion or requesting a prepaid mailer for returning the book. The organization explained that returned books will be "corrected by hand at [the HAA's] local bindery...
...Tasting Theatre (admission $45) sommeliers decant six top Australian bottlings in hourly tastings as the winemakers responsible for each one talk you through it in a video presentation (there's also a separate program of tastings with vintners in person). In the Wine Journey Room, you use a prepaid card to help yourself from an Enomatic rack holding 44 wines, available in tasting, half or full measures. There are also 200 wines available by the bottle, with great rarities among them. (See reviews of 50 American wines...
...make those payments this year, they won't show up on 2009 income statements. Instead, each bank will add an asset, a big one, to its balance sheet, right below where the cash they just handed over to the FDIC used to be. It will be called something like prepaid FDIC premiums. The asset will shrink each quarter by the amount each bank normally would have paid the FDIC. As the bank shrinks the asset, it will book the normal cost it would have paid the FDIC in fees that quarter, except as we all know, the fees will have...
...Tipjoy. Twitter users have Twitpay, which is a micropayment service for the micromessaging set. Gamers have their own digital currencies that can be used for impulse buys during online role-playing games. And real-world commuters are used to gizmos like E-ZPass, which deducts automatically from their prepaid account as they glide through a highway tollbooth...
...operating costs for the Postal Service's fleet - which is 220,000 vehicles strong - through the roof. (Marking one financial bright spot, those surges have since subsided.) And perhaps most biting of all are the multiple billions of dollars the agency has had to dole out annually to a prepaid retiree health-benefit fund, which was created by the Postal Act of 2006. The overall picture isn't pretty. "We actually reached that tipping point, where -" says spokesman Greg Frey, before cutting himself off to be more blunt: "Last year was a bad year...