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I have been reading several comments where people have stated that they've already mailed their absentee ballots. I can understand that if you are out of your state, in a body cast etc. However, if you are voting absentee out of convenience, a desire to vote early or because, even though you are in-town now you will be out-of-town on election day, PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOTS!!!!! With all the reports of voter fraud and missing absentee ballots, we can't afford to take any chances. Either hand-deliver your ballot to your polling station on election day (you won't have...

Posted on Wed, Oct. 20, 2004U.S. to Enforce Rules for Mail to CanadaWASHINGTON (AP) - Most mail to Canada must bear the complete name and address of both sender and recipient or it won't be allowed into the country, the U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday. The tighter addressing requirements are in response to increased security. Even such sender or recipient identifications as "Grandma" or "Aunt Ruth" can result in mail being rejected, the agency said. All mail, except post cards, that does not show the complete name and address of sender and recipient - in Roman letters and Arabic numerals...

Last Night, I received my mail after 8:00 pm, PDT. What gives with the Post Office. I remember growing up, the mail person would be quite punctual. Clean and orderly. Now the employees are teenagers (as of last night), and more than 3 hours late... My Uncle was a supervisor at the Van Nuys post office for over 30 years. He would be furious with how things are run today.

Mail, not phone, might be best for interstellar messages. If an extra terrestrial wanted to send a field report describing all she had learned about Earth, she might be better off writing rather than phoning. A new analysis has concluded that a physical object would be a more efficient way to send a long message to the stars than a beam of radio waves. So while we scour the heavens for radio broadcasts from other worlds, we should also search our planetary backyard for a parcel of alien information, says Christopher Rose, an electrical engineer at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New...

Aug. 27, 2004Man lay dead in bed for two yearsCondo fees and bills were still being paidBody finally found in mummified state WINNIPEG—His telephone number was still listed in the telephone directory and his condominium fees and bills were automatically being withdrawn from his bank account. No one knew Jim Sulkers had died in his bed almost two years ago. Neighbour Sam Shuster said residents in the complex often wondered where the man they knew only as Jim had gone, but were told his condominium fees were still being paid. "How can that happen, for God's sake. Two years!" Shuster said...

Harry Potter Birthday Card Shuts Down Post Office Teen Apparently Adds 'Floo Powder' To Help Envelope Travel POSTED: 10:16 pm EDT July 14, 2004 UPDATED: 12:50 am EDT July 15, 2004 BUCKNER, Mo. -- A birthday card to a fictional character shut down a Missouri post office for two hours on Wednesday, KMBC-TV in Kansas City reported. A worker at the Buckner post office spotted white powder on an envelope. The office was sealed off and hazmat crews were called in to check out the situation. "It's not every day you get a letter with white powder all over it,"...

The family of Tucson Army Sgt. Aaron Garcia didn't need a congressional report to tell them how messed up the military mail system is. The proof is piled up on their dining room table. The Northwest Side family is outraged that four care packages they recently sent to Iraq were all returned to them as undeliverable this week. It's the same week that the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, released a 38-page report that revealed a raft of problems with mail delivery in Iraq including poor planning, inadequate staff training and bureaucratic inertia that has left problems...

AUSTIN, Texas (April 3) - Prison inmates in Texas will no longer be able to receive sexually explicit material in the mail and their letters to the news media and government officials can now be read by officials. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice adopted the new rules on Friday in the first overhaul of prison mail in 21 years. Gary Johnson, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said the aim is to "strike an appropriate balance between an offender's privilege to correspond with the outside world" and the prison system's need to prevent inappropriate mail. Publications...

<p>A "worm" attached to seemingly innocuous emails was yesterday spreading quickly over the Internet, clogging network traffic and potentially leaving hackers an open door to infected personal computers.</p> <p>The worm, called "Mydoom" or "Novarg" by antivirus companies, usually appears to be an email error message. A small file is attached that, when launched on computers running Windows operating systems, can send out 100 infected email messages in 30 seconds to addresses stored in the computer.</p>

<p>I just wanted to tell you that you are like all americans : you are an ignorant BIG ASS, no smarter than the dumbest APE. I piss on your FLAG, on your bigoted COUNTRY and on your stuuuupid RepubliKKKan PREZ who is the shame of this entire planet, not only of your country. Oh and by the way, if you dind't notice yet, the USA is not the center of the universe.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An improving economy means the Postal Service will handle 20 billion letters, packages and other items being sent to relatives, friends and Santa Claus this holiday season. "Generally that economic news translates into additional volume for us,'' Postal Service chief operating officer Patrick Donahoe said Monday. "We're expecting a very successful season.''Donahoe said they have already seen a 1 percent increase in volume compared to the 2002 holiday season, and he expects that to go higher.The 20 billion pieces of mail expected to flow through the Postal Service system this season represent a 50 percent increase in...

ATLANTA - United Parcel Service Inc. later this month will test a bare-bones service catered to select companies, including direct marketers, that will in some cases use the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages to rural locations. The world's largest shipping carrier said Thursday UPS Basic is its attempt to draw in new customers - people who generally don't use its services to deliver 1- to 5-pound packages and are interested simply in a low price. UPS Basic will not include any of the extra services that the company generally offers, like tracking and a guaranteed delivery day. The initiative...

Airmen keep theater mail flowing BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Christine Mayor, Senior Airman Alaine Wallace and Capt. Denise Freimuth load mail onto pallets in 100-plus degree temperatures. The 447th Expeditionary Communications Squadron team handles more than 150,000 pounds of mail flowing to and from air post offices at American camps in Iraq every day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed) View Larger Download HiRes by Master Sgt. Scott ElliottAir Force Print News 10/27/2003 - BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Iraq -- Eighteen airmen, most wearing two or three stripes, spend several hours a day in a sun-baked warehouse...

New APO Zips for Soldiers in Iraq ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Army News Service, Oct. 15, 2003) -- The U.S. Military Postal Service has assigned new geographic zip codes for units and personnel serving in Iraq. The intent of the new zip codes is to decrease the time it takes for service members and civilian employees to receive their mail, officials said, as well as to improve postal service throughout Iraq. Family members and friends of service members and civilians assigned to V Corps and 3rd COSCOM units that currently use zip code 09302 and 09372 for their letters and packages are...

The mail runners of IraqBy Staff Sgt. Nate Orme “L” Van Sciver wearing protective gear shuts his truck door in preparation for delivering mail to soldiers serving in Iraq.Staff Sgt. Nate Orme BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Oct. 7, 2003) -- Leaving the secure confines of the coalition-controlled Baghdad International Airport each morning and heading out onto the dusty sun-drenched highways of Iraq is a daily adventure for the crew of mail runners. At the airport, units of the 3rd Personnel Command operate the Joint Military Mail Terminal out of a large hanger equipped with loading docks where mail is...

Radioactive Parcel Bound for U.S. Seized in Ukraine KIEV (Reuters) - A radioactive package addressed to the United States has been seized at Ukraine's main airport in the capital Kiev, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. The regional emergencies ministry said the package, discovered Tuesday, was emitting radiation at a rate thousands of times higher than the norm in Kiev of 0.05 milliroentgens an hour. "This material is being investigated," said Mykola Karabet, duty officer for the emergencies ministry in the Borispyl region of Kiev. "We do not know what it is. "It was a parcel in some luggage to be sent...

Letters to God End Up at Western Wall By JASON KEYSER Associated Press Writer Ever felt your prayers went unanswered? Try sending a letter to God and chances are it will end up - as many do each year - at an Israeli post office in Jerusalem, where they are read and sent on to the holy Western Wall. The letters come from all over the world in a host of languages. The elderly ask for good health. Others seek heavenly remedies for debts, relationship assistance, or help finding jobs. Children mainly ask God to spring them from homework assignments....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man who thought he had hatched a perfect alibi to charges that he murdered a man in a barroom shooting two years ago had his scheme foiled when a letter asking a friend to lie for him was returned and was read by jail guards. Demetrius Murrell, 24, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of third-degree murder after prosecutors read the letter in court. In the letter, Murrell asked his friend for "a little alibi" during his upcoming trial on charges that he shot and killed a 19-year-old man in a Pittsburgh bar on...

WASHINGTON -- The bioterrorism expert under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials of trampling his constitutional rights and using him as a scapegoat for their failure to make an arrest in the case. Dr. Steven J. Hatfill claims that, by labeling him a "person of interest" in the case, Ashcroft and other federal authorities have destroyed his reputation and ruined his job prospects.

So I'm going through my mail the other day (tuesday), when I come across an envelope from the "William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation." First off, I don't know how they got my address for political purposes, i can't even register to vote yet. Secondly, why would they ask for donations from a 17 year old? The envelope contained a few seperate peices of paper, two being a letter. I read the letter to soon find it was rife with slander dog-like begging. It's slander was amazingly brazen... "Throughout the eight years of his presidency, you've been one of President Clinton's...