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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Be wary of what photos and videos are supposed to 'prove'

NPR

Be wary of what photos and videos are supposed to 'prove' toggle caption DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images/Digital Vision Vectors This piece originally appeared as part of NPR's live coverage of the 2024 election. Sponsor Message UCLA law professor Richard L. Hasen investigated the claim in his 2022 book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics – And How To Cure It. …

Voter Suppression

4 months, 3 weeks ago

PostNL removing more orange post boxes and mail volumes continue to fall

NL Times

Netherlands residents send fewer letters and cards each year. “We have been doing this for 225 years, so we know from experience how much ends up in each mailbox.” The company stressed that it still adheres to the Postal Act, which stipulates that residential areas with over 5,000 inhabitants must have a mailbox within every 1-kilometer radius and smaller neighborhoods …

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7 months ago

A major change is coming to mailboxes

Daily Mail

The United States Postal Service is encouraging Americans to upgrade to a new larger capacity mailbox. 'Today's newer mailboxes are wider and taller to accommodate delivery of items you've ordered online and reduce the need for notices left and trips to the Post Office to retrieve a package,' the USPS said. The dimensions of the 'next generation' mailboxes are approximately …

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3 years ago

Postal hike doesn’t stop catalogers from stuffing mailboxes

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — A big postal rate increase over the summer hasn’t stopped catalog retailers from stuffing mailboxes this holiday season. Postal Service says more than 300 million catalogs flooded into people’s mailboxes last month, and the overall number of catalogs has grown 12% over last year, officials said. There are plenty of companies that are still aggressively mailing catalogs,” …

Miller Catalog Catalogs

3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. Justice Department says its emails were breached by SolarWinds hackers

The Hindu

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday its email systems were accessed by the hackers who broke into software company SolarWinds, another indication of the gravity of the breach that has shaken Washington. The department, which has more than 100,000 employees across a series of law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the U.S. But …

Justice Department Solarwinds Hackers

4 years ago

Drones are poised to reshape home design

Live Mint

Let’s say you want a hamburger. Architects and builders might have to rethink overall home design to accommodate remote delivery, with drone landing pads mounted on curbside mailboxes, built onto rooftops or perched on windowsills. While the possibility of air taxis is years away, “I could see package delivery as happening sooner,” says developer Dan Kodsi, chief executive of Royal …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Trump’s $200 prescription cards won’t hit mailboxes just yet

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — If you’re on Medicare, don’t run to the mailbox looking for a $200 prescription drug card courtesy of President Donald Trump. “The administration has had nearly four years to work with Congress or go through the regulatory process to adopt proposals that could have a real and sustained impact on drug prices.” For example, a bipartisan Senate bil …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Postal service seen hauling mailboxes away in trucks as Trump's pick to lead USPS makes controversial changes before election

The Independent

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4 years, 4 months ago

‘They’re legit taking mailboxes off the street’: Postal Service tells US citizens removals are nothing to do with Trump