It’s another move by the United States Postal Service to get a handle on its growing financial difficulties. But it could make things even worse.
Thursday’s links talk miniature pageant girls and old-fashioned books.
Losses by the U.S. Postal Service, both monetarily and in total decline of delivered mail pieces, over the last year (via CNN)
Wanted, dead or alive: Famous Americans to appear on the next postage stamp.
Cash. Some have it; some don’t. The United States Postal Service sits squarely in the Have Nots group, unable to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and on the verge of shutting down entirely without Congress taking emergency action, according to a New York Times report.
The huddled masses would be sorely disappointed – the Ellis Island greeter depicted on a new U.S. stamp is actually her Las Vegas replica.
Just to prove that the rest of the world is living in the Stone Age, Sweden’s getting rid of stamps and replacing it with none other than text messages.
Wednesday’s links geek out and bust a move.
If stamps could talk … they’d probably read you a nice little poem, or so says the U.K’s postal service.
