• Contract Post Offices No Longer Accept International Packages

    Updated: 2012-05-31 15:48:46
    From PostalReporter reader: Most contract stations were already refusing international packages due to the complicated regulations.  Now there is a nationwide ban as of May 21, 2012 (see article ).  Finding an open retail service counter at a real Post Office is going to be more difficult after implementation of the POStPlan.  The local post office is not credited with [...]

  • The Office of Fair Trading must crackdown on insurers inflating motorists’ costs

    Updated: 2012-05-31 08:37:55
    The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) must crackdown hard on cosy deals between insurance companies and their contractors to fraudulently force up costs by £225m a year for hard-pressed motorists. You would have to be very naïve indeed not to know where the familiar question “Is this an insurance job, guv?” generally leads. Prices soar [...]

  • Things worth reading: 31st May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-31 06:33:23

  • Social Security Disability Insurance Should Not Be Ignored

    Updated: 2012-05-30 22:02:15
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  • USPS Launches ‘Picture Permit’ Website for Marketers

    Updated: 2012-05-30 20:14:14
    Registration for ‘Logo’ Indicia Now Open to Commercial Mailers WASHINGTON, May 30, 2012— In response to customer requests, the U.S. Postal Service is announcing the launch of the Picture Permit Imprint Indicia program for commercial mailers. The Picture Permit Imprint Indicia program provides new advertising opportunities for commercial mail customers by allowing them to use [...]

  • Apparently, I don't understand demand management

    Updated: 2012-05-30 19:01:09
    This is the last blog I ever do on Krugman – honest, because whenever I do them, I get my head torn off by his followers, and just recently, by the great man himself. It's hard to criticise a perceived demi-god, and in any case, these arguments about deficit spending go round and round in [...]

  • Facebook IPO: Morgan Stanley should be praised for acting ethically

    Updated: 2012-05-30 18:15:38
    We all know that the world's in a mess and Armaggeddon is nigh simply because the investment banks were too greedy, too interested gaining their own pots of filthy lucre, to take care of their customers' interests. Then along comes an investment bank that does in fact act contrary to its own interests, specifically and [...]

  • A Response to Holtz-Eakin's Four Steps for Tax Reform

    Updated: 2012-05-30 18:13:23
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  • Doctors striking to protect £50,000 a year pensions need a reality check

    Updated: 2012-05-30 15:50:16
    Pensions experts prescribed a reality check for doctors threatening strike action, pointing out that medical professionals make up three quarters of public sector workers who enjoy index-linked pensions of more than £50,000 a year. Actuaries, the mathematicians who advise pension funds, calculate that the average doctor retires on an index-linked risk-free final salary pension of [...]

  • Europe's money contracts again

    Updated: 2012-05-30 11:27:17
    Very quickly, today's ECB data shows that Euroland's money supply is contracting again. M3 fell by €51bn in April. M1 fell by €55bn. Private credit fell €55bn. I don't yet have the country breakdown. My guess is that the Club Med implosion is grim. The chart is based on the annual rate. It has not [...]

  • USPS: More Village Post Offices Open For Business

    Updated: 2012-05-30 05:54:29
    Three additional Village Post Offices (VPOs) opened for business this month, bringing to 22 the number of these facilities. More than 20 VPOs are scheduled to open in June. Another four VPOs are scheduled to open before the end of May. Great Lakes Area is home to two of the new facilities — Long Lake [...]

  • Things worth reading: 30th May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-29 23:37:58

  • What a joke as pasty-faced Chancellor is forced to eat humble pie and bin plans for a pasty tax

    Updated: 2012-05-29 09:16:42
    Pasty-faced Chancellor George Osborne has been forced to eat humble pie and bin his plans for a pasty tax but accountants are not impressed by his populist about-turn. Greggs the baker may be pleased, as its shares jumped on early trading this morning, but Alan Pearce of chartered accountants Blick Rothenberg spoke for several other [...]

  • USPS Pacific Area Network Optimization Timeline

    Updated: 2012-05-29 07:26:45
    USPS Pacific Area Network Optimization Timeline as of 5-17-12 from August 2012 through January 2014. The Timeline includes Employee Impacts by District, Craft and Operations. USPS Pacific Area Network Optimization Timeline -5-17-12

  • Things worth reading: 29th May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-29 03:50:22

  • Infrastructure proposal demonstrates why company pension savers need a pressure group to represent us

    Updated: 2012-05-28 07:49:58
    Millions of savers are entitled to feel uneasy about proposals to pour hundreds of billions of pounds of badly-depleted, deficit-blighted company pensions funds into infrastructure projects. Such good works, you will recall, were one of Chancellor George Osborne’s bright ideas in the last budget. He hopes to stimulate the economy and avoid the dreaded double-dip [...]

  • Things worth reading: 28th May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-28 04:34:49

  • USA Today Accounts for Unfunded Liabilities

    Updated: 2012-05-24 21:12:31
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  • Things worth reading: 24th May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-24 07:05:23

  • Things worth reading: 23rd May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-23 06:20:38

  • Things worth reading: 22nd May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-22 06:00:19

  • A Progressive Retirement Age?

    Updated: 2012-05-21 19:34:17
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  • Tax Policy Center Event Discusses Taxes on the Financial Sector

    Updated: 2012-05-21 18:47:45
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  • Things worth reading: 21st May 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-21 06:27:48

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