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		<title>USPS Newslink, Saving Money and 1890 Upstate Courthouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Lawrence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was unaware of the USPS newsletter News Link until today, when a colleague forwarded a copy on to me. This is apparently sent to members of the Postal Customer Councils located around the country.  There are some 200 &#8220;PCC&#8217;s&#8221; with a total of 100,000 members around the country.  The purpose of these councils is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch your hands &#8211; they might be insulting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hand gestures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politeness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural Dos and Don&#8217;ts: Nonverbal Gestures
By: Carol Kinsey Goman
Synopsis:  The wave of a hand—up or down, left or right, facing in or out—can have many different meanings in different places around the world. Understanding these differences and being conscious of them can help you avoid inadvertently offending an international colleague.
It was an important evening for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Mail &amp; Bureacracy Forever</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/lost-mail-bureacracy-forever</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/lost-mail-bureacracy-forever#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postal and Express]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mergers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parcels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to track down some missing mail somewhere in the Japan Post domestic system for about 3 weeks.  A couple of mailers have contacted me with a very unusual problem.  Fifty percent drop in responses from mailings in Japan for the last 3 months.  And these are not &#8220;experiments&#8221;, but mailings to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Behavioral Advertising-Europe Gets Serious</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/online-behavioral-advertising-europe-gets-serious</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/online-behavioral-advertising-europe-gets-serious#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Article 29]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavioral advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[direct marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[targeted advertising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 24, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published an opinion clarifying how and why particular rules apply to online behavioral advertising.  This was a long-expected opinion by this statutory advisory body consisting of the Data Protection Commissioners of the countries of the European Union.
Not surprisingly, WP29 concludes that online behavioral advertising networks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing Moves to the Top of the Agenda</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/addressing-moves-to-the-top-of-the-agenda</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/addressing-moves-to-the-top-of-the-agenda#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Prescott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Editor participated on a panel last week at Triangle’s World Mail &#38; Express Europe Conference and, opening the second day of the conference to a full room, told the audience that addressing is moving to the top of the agenda.  Subsequent speakers from Estonia Post, Intermec, and DPD Gmbh expanded on many aspects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Address Data Association and the Invisible ROI Problem</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/the-global-address-data-association-and-the-invisible-roi-problem</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/the-global-address-data-association-and-the-invisible-roi-problem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prescottreport.com/?p=45527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an invisible problem in the mailing industry that no one talks about. Not the Posts, not the mailers, not the regulators. No one is quite sure of its size, although operations people in the Posts do, and the Global Address Data Association, which I am forming, has a pretty good inkling.  I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Factor in UAA</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/the-human-factor-in-uaa</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merry Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Factor in Undeliverable as Addressed
While living in a smaller town within a large metropolitan region on the U.S., I received a letter addressed to me with the town, state, and street names but no building number or ZIP code.  The local letter carrier had recognized my name.
In a South American country, a letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dot Post Approved</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/dot-post-approved</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/dot-post-approved#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prescottreport.com/?p=45460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a major development, the Postal Operations Council today accepted without discussion or debate the UPU Domain Management Policy document that will govern who will be able to obtain a dot Post domain, and how.  The resolution delegated substantial continuing authority as  it resolved as follows:
&#8220;Decides
–       to submit the .post Domain Management Policy, as approved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director General Opens Postal Operations Council Meeting.</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/director-general-opens-postal-operations-council-meeting</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/director-general-opens-postal-operations-council-meeting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UPU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Postal Operations Council plenary meeting under Chairman Andreas Taprantzis (Greece) began its review of the accomplishments and projects of the various committees and work groups previously established to carry out budgeted projects.  We will report on some of these in The Prescott Report and this blog in forthcoming issues. Today we report on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Volcano, Global Interdependency, Credit Cards, Unions, and a Border Bully Award</title>
		<link>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/the-volcano-global-interdependency-credit-cards-unions-and-a-border-bully-award</link>
		<comments>http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/the-volcano-global-interdependency-credit-cards-unions-and-a-border-bully-award#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chaspres</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Bully or Buddy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNCF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month there were so many occasions for bestowing a Border Bully award that we almost passed up the pleasure.  The potential “honorees” were legion.  First is probably any European nation which spent more time and money arranging to get its stranded holiday-going citizens back home from Cozumel, Antigua and Bangkok than it spent on [...]]]></description>
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