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Busiest Day Of The Year For Post Offices

By: Matt Bush // December 15, 2008
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U.S. Postal officials say today will be the busiest mailing day of the year.

They say they expect to handle a billion fewer holiday packages and cards this year nationwide because of the lagging economy.

Yverne Moore is the postmaster for D.C. Moore says customers at post offices in Washington may find the lines a little shorter this holiday season, because there's a 13 percent increase in the number of people who use the postal services Web site to ship packages locally. The postal service estimates it will still deliver 19 billion packages over the holidays.

Arts & Culture

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Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.

Food

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Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.

Politics

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Virginia Republicans Determine Slate Of Candidates

Republicans have selected candidates to represent the party in the November election.

Technology

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Book News: Amazon May Be Called Before Parliament Over Taxes

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