TN stamp duty income up 30%

Tamil Nadu's revenue through stamp duty and registrations has jumped over 29 per cent between April-December 2011, compared with the corresponding period last the previous year.

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Stamp ‘collectors’ charged with multi-million heist

Police have arrested four men from Ballerup – aged 31, 34, 43 and 54 – in connection with a humongous heist of new Danish stamps worth 23 million kroner.

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Ode to Snail Mail

The Forbes website reports, “In the same week first-class postage rose a penny to 45 cents, the debt-ridden United States Postal Service re-circulated its ode to snail mail, the ‘Hacker’ commercial. If you haven’t seen it, the spot opens with women putting notices they presumably received via mail on their refrigerators and cork board. ‘A refrigerator has never been hacked,’ the narrator says. ‘An online virus has never attacked a cork board.’”

Contributor Mickey Meece goes on to say that the ad, targeting businesses, implores them to: “Give your customers the added feeling of security a printed statement or receipt provides – with mail. It’s good for business, and even better for your customers. For safe and secure ways to stay connected, visit USPS.com/mail.”
Mark Finkelstein of the Newsbusters.org blog wrote: “The Post Office was trying to make the argument that snail mail is safer and more appealing to people in general and customers in particular. You might call it trying to sweep back the Internet age with a soggy envelope.

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Foxborough students remember Holocaust victims with stamp drive, art work

Eleven million. It’s a huge number that has huge significance to the students at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. To them, it represents the number of people killed during the Holocaust.

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One stamp at a time: Foxborough students remember Holocaust victims with stamp drive, art work

Eleven million. It’s a huge number that has huge significance to the students at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. To them, it represents the number of people killed during the Holocaust.

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Collectors gather to swap stamps, stories at monthly meeting

Tom Culver can attest to the fact that much can be learned from an avid philatelist. Better known as stamp collectors, Culver said he has learned about global politics by what countries print on their stamps. “You’ll know all the answers on Jeopardy! if you collect stamps,” Culver said. He [...]

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EVENT: Postal Service to Issue Miles Davis Stamp

More than 20 years after his death, jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with his very own stamp. This year, the "Kind of Blue" trumpeter will be immortalized in a collection of musically-themed stamps that will also honor the singer Edith Piaf, according to The Telegraph. They will be released in partnership with the French postal service, La Poste…

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App helps find phone lost in trash

WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — A Waukee woman whose iPhone ended up in the bowels of a garbage truck has the device back, thanks to a GPS chip and the kindness of some trash collectors who sorted through garbage at the landfill.

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A one-of-a-kind history lesson at the National Stamps Exhibit

In the e-mail age, stamps may already be archaic. But at the National Stamps Exhibit, these small pieces of paper are precious artifacts that showcase Philippine history.

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Lords vote to buy finest images of the Vale

THE owner of Stoke Mandeville’s Obsidian Gallery says it is a ‘wonderful accolade’ that seven Bucks artworks have been chosen for the The House of Lords’ permanent collection.

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