Earnings will be $1.10 a share for the period that ended in November, FedEx said late yesterday. The shares rose $2.36, or 2.7 percent, to $89.88 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, the highest close since September 2008.

FedEx Corp. said its fiscal second- quarter profit exceeded its forecast as international and ground shipments rose, bolstering economists’ assessments that a global recovery is under way.

Free access to 100 percent recyclable Priority Mail and Express Mail packaging supplies… deliverable at zero cost to your doorstep is a popular feature.   In fact, the USPS is the only shipping and mailing entity in the US certified to be Cradle to Cradle™ green packaging for its impact to the environmental and human health standards.  In fact, they eliminated over 15,000 tons of carbon emissions last year. That’s equal to a year’s worth of driving for 2,747 average vehicles.

USPS.com/Green

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]]> http://mailingservicecenter.com/220/products-services/usps-fedex-or-ups-best-deal-on-overnight-shipping/feed/ 1 http://mailingservicecenter.com/163/postal-shipping-trivia/motto-misnomer/ http://mailingservicecenter.com/163/postal-shipping-trivia/motto-misnomer/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:34:29 +0000 MailingServiceCenter http://mailingservicecenter.com/?p=163 The California rain storms today brings to mind a motto misnomer that most people are familiar with.   But actually, the US Postal Service indeed does NOT have an official motto.  It is however, often incorrectly quoted as…

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”

The small part that is true about the misquoted creed is that it’s merely a large inscription on the front of New York City’s James Farley Post Office as shown below.   If you’d like a closer look so you can better read the inscription for yourself, here is the full blown photo…enjoy!

James Farley Post Office (Wikipedia 2009)

But this Postal Service fable has little known historic origins. The original passage comes from Herodotus‘ Histories (Book 8, Ch. 98) and “describes the faithful service of the Persian system of mounted postal messengers under Xerxes I of Persia.” (Wikipedia)

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. (trans. A.D. Godley 1924)

For many who are more familiar with modern connotations of the word “postal”…it may be difficult for them to believe a romanticized notion such as a Postal Service creed anyway. But alas, we still have Cliff Claven.

Kelp Forest Stamp

The Kelp Forest Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium broadcast the U.S. Postal Service’s new postage stamp launch via live video (below) streaming today.

(photo & video source: USPS)

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Now you’re two steps ahead with holiday preparedness!