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Perhaps it is a sign of how electronic communication has changed our culture, but I’ve noticed that there are no more mailmen on TV. It wasn’t so long ago when the postal service was such a part of everyday life that characters who worked as postmen were fairly common in entertainment.
The most recent example I can think of is Newman, from “Seinfeld”. Newman was
Newman of Seinfeld
portrayed as a self-interested and incompetent comic foil. “Seinfeld” ended its run in 1998. Coincidentally, that was the same year Google was founded. An estimated 65 million Americans were regular Internet users then. Today there are almost 240 million.
Before Newman, there was Cliff Clavin, from
Cliff Clavin
“Cheers.” Cliff, a boorish know-it-all, was rarely seen out of uniform, even though most scenes took place after work at the titular watering hole. In 1982, the year “Cheers” debuted, there were only around 620,000 home computers in the United States.
With those two examples, it’s tempting to say the post office is better off not having its employees portrayed on the small screen. But there were positive depictions as well. Reba the Mail Lady brightened (more…)
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On August 27, 2010, we are attending an historic event in Addison, TX. It’s called OpenCamp, and if you are a webmaster, web developer, blogger, podcaster, social media enthusiast or someone who is interested in web content creation you should be there too.
OpenCamp is the first multi-platform web conference to be held in the Southwest, and some of the most notable people on the web are speaking there.
Just a few on the list:
- Brian Clark of CopyBlogger fame
- Doug Vann who travels all over sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for Drupal
- Chris Pirillo founder of the blogging platform Lockergnome, is a Tech Expert on CNN, and is on the Board of Directors for UstreamTV
- Trey Ratcliff whose travel photography blog “stuckincustoms.com” is the #1 blog of it’s kind on the net, getting approximately 350,000 visits per month
Unlike other conferences that focus on only one platform, there will be sessions on WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Blogger and many other tools for web development. In addition to the various content platform sessions there will be (more…)
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DMM Advisory
Today we updated our mailing standards to capture the following changes:
Booklets: New Optional Design for Letter-Sized Booklets
We revised 201.3.0 to modify language that refers to the bound edge of a booklet as an edge and to rename the bound edge as the spine; to modify the reference to cover paper for one design format; to extend booklet design parameters; and to introduce a second folding option in the folded booklet category.
New Deflection Standards for Commercial Flat-Size Mail
We revised 301.1.0 to implement new deflection standards on commercial flat-size mail. (more…)