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		<title>Job security still eludes some postal employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ When the U.S. Postal Service announced in April it would be closing its Beaumont Regional Encoding Facility, almost 1,000 workers knew their jobs were in jeopardy. Some went to the main Beaumont post office on Walden Road - and their jobs could be in peril again, along with those of regular employees, as the office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLAT RATE BOXES TAKE THE GUESS WORK OUT OF MAILING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Priority Mail boxes and envelopes available at Post Offices and online
Washington, DC — Any weight, any state.
That&#8217;s the simple message and the simplicity of shipping holiday gifts with a Priority Mail Flat Rate Box.
Ship letters or packages in an average of two to three days with Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelopes and Boxes. For one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/06/flat-rate-boxes-take-the-guess-work-out-of-mailing/</link>
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		<title>ADVO Sues Valassis to Enforce Merger Agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ADVO today announced that it has filed an answer and counterclaims in response to the complaint filed last week by Valassis Communications, Inc. in the Court of Chancery for New Castle County, Delaware. ADVO&#8217;s counterclaims seek, among other things:
&#8211; A court declaration that Valassis has no right to rescind or terminate or otherwise evade its obligations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/09/08/advo-sues-valassis-to-enforce-merger-agreement/</link>
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		<title>Advo Shares Drop After Valassis Sues To Kill $1.3 Billion Merger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Valassis releases redacted version of lawsuit to public
Advo Inc., the largest direct mailer, shares fell sharply before Thursday&#8217;s market open, a day after Valassis Communications Inc., which agreed to acquire Advco for $1.3 billion in July, said it filed a lawsuit seeking to rescind its takeover proposal due to fraudulent behavior. Read fully story
Yesterday, Valassis Communications, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/31/advo-shares-drop-after-valassis-sues-to-kill-13-billion-merger/</link>
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		<title>US Postal Service Delivers a History of Highlights to the National Postal Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 24, 2006 — For six decades, the US Postal Service and Highlights for Children, Inc. have delighted young readers in America by delivering 1 billion copies of Highlights for Children magazine to help children become their best selves.
 
This achievement was celebrated today as both organizations presented the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Postal Museum with one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/24/us-postal-service-delivers-a-history-of-highlights-to-the-national-postal-museum/</link>
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		<title>USPS Dragnet Continues to Sweep Up Injured Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dan Sullivan
July 6 - The Postal Service’s Ergonomic Risk Reduction Program (ERRP)is premised on a simple lie. As it says on page 2 of the slickly produced booklet promoting ERRP, &#8220;The Postal Service has a long history of attention to ergonomics.&#8221;
Forget about the letter sorting machines that destroyed a generation of postal clerks’ wrists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/06/usps-dragnet-continues-to-sweep-up-injured-workers/</link>
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		<title>USPS Supporter in Wireless Amber Alert Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WIRELESS AMBER ALERT PROGRAM LAUNCHES
Cell phone text alerts now available
If you’re a wireless subscriber, you now can help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children search for abducted children. A new initiative created jointly by the Center and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association allows you to receive Wireless AMBER Alert text messages.
AMBER stands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/29/usps-supporter-in-wireless-amber-alert-program/</link>
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		<title>National Postal Museum&#8217;s New Educational and Research Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From National Postal Museum: The National Postal Museum is reaching out to an international, online audience of philatelists, historians, educators, students, and the public in a bold way. Arago™, the Museum&#8217;s new educational and research Web site, will present the collections in a context-rich setting with full color images and zoom-in capability. The Web site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/24/national-postal-museums-new-educational-and-research-website/</link>
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		<title>Postal Rates May Rise as Much as 25% for In-County Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Postal rates could rise nearly 25% for in-county newspapers in May 2007 if the United States Postal Service has its way, and further annual increases are in store, the National Newspaper Association (NNA) revealed today.
USPS announced this morning that it intends a larger rate hike for local newspapers than for virtually any other mail class, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/04/postal-rates-may-rise-as-much-as-25-for-in-county-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Website Owners Beware of Ads That Look Like Bills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC World Reports:The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is conducting a review of Listing Corp., a company whose mailed marketing pitches look like domain-name invoices.
When the mail carrier delivered what looked like a Web-domain-related bill for $60 from a company called Listing Corp. last year, the San Diego chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postalreporter.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/02/website-owners-beware-of-ads-that-look-like-bills/</link>
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