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Florida county deals with illegal road signs
A Florida county has turned to a form of rough justice to deal with illegal road signs clogging its intersections. The Miami Herald reports Miami-Dade county has decided to robocall those numbers on the innumerable road signs that advertise foreclosure relief, work-at-home opportunities, and more. The only way to stop ...
USPS plans to stop most Saturday delivery
I have long broached the topic of reducing mail delivery from six days a week to five days. My discussion has historically brought up a lot of emotions in listeners. As it stands now, the USPS has a plan in place to stop Saturday delivery of first-class mail as of ...
Junk mail being sent to you with the help of data miners
They don't call it junk mail for nothing. The amount of bulk mail you see in your mailbox will climb by a great deal if the United States Postal Service (USPS) has its way. Facing a massive debt, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe is actually making appeals to bulk mail ...
Presidential campaigns use data mining to influence your vote
You watched the debate on Tuesday, right? New information has emerged about how campaigns are using data mining to get you to the polls on Nov. 6. We all know that data mining is becoming more and more a part of our lives. Data miners use seemingly unrelated data to ...
Rebates more hassle than they're worth?
My rule for rebates is that I'll buy something with a pain-in-the-rear-end rebate only if it's a decent deal before the rebate and the rebate is just like icing on the cake. But if it's only a deal when you factor in the rebate, that's no deal at all to ...
New FCC rules will limit "robocalls"
If you're sick and tired of getting "robocalls" at home, there's some hope in sight for you thanks to a new federal regulation. Under new FCC rules, marketers will have to get your explicit permission before they can bombard you with pre-recorded automated calls on your home phone. This holds ...
Beware of automatic renewals on magazine subscriptions
RIP-OFF ALERT: Time Warner is doing some ugly stuff in the magazine business through a secret subsidiary known as Synapse Group that is ripping people off, according to The New York Times. First a little background here: I subscribe to Fortune, a Time Warner magazine, and my subscription runs through ...
What should be done with the USPS?
The Postal Service may close 3,700 stores as it struggles with a huge deficit. But is that a big story when the USPS is facing a gap of $20 billion? Any other business would have long ago stopped Saturday delivery. Yet the USPS is still wasting money doing it. Besides, ...
Tax return check theft scam
I.D. thieves stole a record amount tax info from citizens last year, and along with it, their tax return money. Here's something you could right now to assure you don't get ripped off next tax season.
Get the Best Rate on Your Magazine Subscriptions
If you subscribe to magazines, Clark has a warning about the renewal notices you may see coming in your mailbox. Here's how to get the best rate on your subscriptions.
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