Eskimos stomp Stamps
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Calgary - The Edmonton Eskimos regained bragging rights in the annual Labour Day Classic series, beating the archrival Calgary Stampeders 25-7 on Monday.
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Make a stamp? Nope, no more, says the U.S. Postal Service. Though most used the service to create postage from images of their dogs, babies and weddings, some folks made legal postage out of images of not-so-nice people.
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Diamonds are forever, sure. But postal rates? Coming soon to your neighborhood post office: a stamp that can be used eternally, even if rates are increased a dozen or more times.
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Text messages, e-mails and social networking are challenging traditional mail but Santa Claus at least is receiving more and more old-fashioned letters, according to the world's postmen.
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With young Norwegians more likely to send a mobile phone text message than a post card, the postal service Tuesday revealed text message theme stamps in a bid to draw them back to letter writing.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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Forget e-mail. How about space mail? In an experiment combining elements of a package delivery service, the sport of kite surfing and a REALLY big fishing reel, Russian and European engineers on Tuesday sought to pioneer a technology that could be used in the future to retrieve cargo from space.
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There is a growing appreciation among the federal authorities for the American Indian art of tracking.
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By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer  Every spring, thousands of birds, some weighing a pound or less, set off on a journey of herculean proportions. They fly thousands of miles north, to breeding grounds in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada and to U.S.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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Kids as penguins interact with flightless avatars in a virtual arctic world. By Dawn Margolis from Wired magazine.
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Faster than a speeding bullet, comic book superheroes are coming to a post office near you. Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and a half dozen other superheroes will star on new postage stamps being released Thursday.
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Arctic peoples aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer most.
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The Beatles are to appear on a set of stamps in January, the Royal Mail has announced.
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The stamp, postal officials have said, is designed to raise awareness about the disease, which damages blood cells by changing them from smooth and round into sickle shapes and making them hard and sticky.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
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The post office hopes to hit a grand slam by honoring a quartet of baseball&#039;s great sluggers on postage. Ceremonies are scheduled for Yankee Stadium on Saturday to release new 39-cent stamps and 24-cent postal cards honoring Mickey Mantle, Roy Campanella, Hank Greenberg and Mel Ott.