Consumer Edition, Issue 58


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Postal Connections Rents Mailboxes



Mailbox rentals are one of the most popular of services offered by Postal Connections stores. Some of the advantages of this service include:
  • If you have a second home or move around to different places in the area, it might be a good idea to just use one permanent mail address.

  • For small business owners or SOHOs (small office, home office) your home address can remain private.

  • Someone will always be there to receive mail or packages even if you're not. No more mail and packages piling up at your home.

  • Postal Connections can receive items from any shipping service including UPS and FedEx.

  • Instead of an impersonal PO Box, the street address increases the credibility of a home business.
Some Postal Connections stores also offer iPostal. This simple, reliable, secure and easy-to-use web based application allows business travelers, vacationers, expats, college students, and small business owners to manage mail and stay connected when on the move. See your local store for availability.



Five Facts about July 4th


(image from Wikipedia)
  1. British military officers originally sung Yankee Doodle prior to the Revolution to mock the disorganized American colonists who fought with them during the French and Indian Wars.

  2. Several countries in South America and others including France, Greece, Poland and Russia used the Declaration of Independence as a guide while struggling for their own freedom.

  3. Three U.S. Presidents: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, died on July 4th.

  4. The 13 stars arranged in a circle on the first American flag represented equality between the original thirteen colonies.

  5. Approximately 2.5 million people lived in America in July of 1776, now it is 310 million plus!



The First Fourth of July Bill of Fare



America's founding fathers headed to Philadelphia's City Tavern to celebrate July 4, 1776. No record exists of what they ate but below are some of the foods most often served in taverns of the time:
  • Heavily salted (for preservation) meat including beef, fowl and turkey, mutton, gammons (smoked ham or bacon), smoked and pickled tongue, salt pork, crackers, butter, coffee, apples, and sugar.

  • Bread and vegetables including potatoes, carrots, peas, beans, beets, onions, cabbages, turnips, squashes and cucumbers for pickling.

  • Rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, wine, cider, beer and ale

  • Lemons and limes



Can you Guess the Name and Artist of These Summer Songs from These Brief Phrases?
(answers are in the small letters at the end of this newsletter!)

  1. "I'm a gonna raise a fuss, I'm a gonna raise a holler"

    2.
  2. "Back of my neck getting dirt and gritty"

    3.
  3. "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac"

  4. "That's when I had most of my fun back high, high, high, high there"

    5.
  5. "Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by"





5.Frank Sinatra, Summer Wind 4. Sly and the Family Stone, Hot Fun in the Summertime 3. Don Henley, Boys of Summer 2. Lovin' Spoonful, Summer in the City 1. Eddie Cochran et.al. Summertime Blues
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Postal Connections:
Postal Connections, a store in your neighborhood, provides a wide variety of business and administrative services that support on-the-go consumers and business people. We provide the service you want with the technology we know.

Services and products offered include a full spectrum of shipping choices, packaging, mailbox rental, copying/printing, office/shipping supplies, internet services, document preparation, notary services, passport photos, greeting cards and faxing.



July 4th Quotes

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley


I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Lech Walesa