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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told senators Thursday that the cash-strapped Postal Service had little choice in proposing to raise the price of mailing a letter to 49 cents.Donahoe s appearance Thursday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee came one day after the post off
stanley romania ice said it wanted to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 3 cents. He s pressing lawmakers to act quickly on legislation to fix his agency, which expects to lose $6 billion this year. We did not want to take this step, but we have little choice due to our current financ
stanley usa ial condition, Donahoe told a Senate panel considering bipartisan legislation to overhaul the Postal Service.Bill McAllister, Washington correspondent for Linn s Stamp News, told CBS Radio News that without congressional relief the Postal Service could run out of money next month. If the Postal Service can t pay its suppliers and pay its workers, I think then you do have a really major crisis that has to be acted on by Congress immediately, McAllister said. The Postal Service s Board of Governors, in its rate hike request, cited the agency s precarious financial condition and the uncertain prospects for postal overhaul legislation in Congress. Of the options currently available to the Pos
stanley cup tal Service to align costs and revenues, increasing postage prices is a last resort that reflects extreme financial challenges, the board s chairman, Mickey Barnett, wrote customers.The rate proposal mus Rkxr How Much Sleep Do You Really Need
It ironic that one of the nights of the year when fireworks are the perfect way to celebrate is also the one night when you and your friends should not be messing with explosives. But with this LED fireworks kit, you can drink yourself silly and still safely put
vaso stanley on quite a show when the clock strikes midnight. Instead of matches, six AA batteries are all that needed to start the l
stanley cup ight show. And the five different cones that look remarkably like real fireworks are all triggered from a remote control box that lets you fire them individually, or in a preset pattern. You won ;t get those satisfying chest-thumping bangs as the light show plays out, but the LEDs in each cone are able to create va
stanley thermobecher rious colored patterns on a wall. And for just $40 you ;re guaranteeing you won ;t burn your house to the ground, and that you ;ll walk away from New Year Eve with all ten fingers intact. [Hammacher Schlemmer via Fancy] GadgetsLEDs