I have a bunch of postcards I'm mailing out from within the US to people in the US, UK and Switzerland. I can put domestic stamps on the cards sent from within the US to our US address, so that the recipients can just drop it in a mailbox. Does the USPS or another entity within the US sell stamps that I can put on the postcards sent from the UK and Switzerland, such that the recipients don't need to buy their own stamps?
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on May 10, 2013 -
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I want to send a postcard from France to
this restaurant in Japan where my friend is a cook. There appears to be an address on the front page of the website, but I'll be damned if I can make out what it says, much less recreate it on a postcard in a way that the French post can parse. I'm sure I could ask him myself, but I would prefer to surprise him. Can anyone help me with this?
posted by Evstar
on Mar 11, 2013 -
9 answers
I'm looking for a type font that was used for the numbering on early-to-mid twentieth century post office boxes. The font is brass or gold in color, with slight shadowing or some other contrivance that gives it some dimensionality or relief or shadowing. It's sort of the same font that you see from the 1950's on lawyer's office windows or doors in cities, although that's a fleeting impression I have.
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posted by eaglehound
on Feb 26, 2013 -
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My Google-Fu has utterly failed me on this. Can anyone help me find this specific blog post about baking steel-cut oats?
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posted by mon-ma-tron
on Feb 7, 2013 -
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Can I ship bottles of perfume from Canada to the US? Can I ship them within Canada?
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posted by ohmy
on Dec 30, 2012 -
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I like him a lot, but I have PTSD don't feel like I have much to give in a relationship. He wants to wait, but I'm not so sure.
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posted by proximacentauri
on Dec 22, 2012 -
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I want to change the world. Or at least make it easier/faster/cheaper to send my niece and nephew, currently living
less than 500 miles from where I live, a flipping Christmas package. Who should I bother to help get this done?
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posted by SMPA
on Dec 19, 2012 -
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Help me identify uniforms worn in an antique pencil watercolor. And maybe a guess as to where it was recorded.
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posted by WickedPissah
on Dec 14, 2012 -
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I didn't seal my new fence posts and now the forecast is for rain all week. Can I seal them in the spring?
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posted by cda
on Oct 28, 2012 -
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Before I had my child, I lost almost 100lbs. I have since gained it all back due to post partum depression. How do I get back on track with a child? More detail inside
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posted by AbsolutelyHonest
on Aug 29, 2012 -
31 answers
WordPressFilter: How can I make a WordPress author have their name show up in the
posts they make, but not the
pages they make?
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posted by antonymous
on Aug 3, 2012 -
10 answers
Looking at the Universal Postal Union
pages on the matter, addresses on envelopes are usually right-justified and appear below the stamp. Why is this the case. Also, are the UK and Ireland the only exceptions?
posted by Talkie Toaster
on Aug 1, 2012 -
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I need to mail approximately $1,000 worth of euros from WA to NY. We received it from our bank through FedEx, but FedEx refused to accept the shipment when I tried to send it and said that the bank must have had third party insurance. What is the best way to get the money to the opposite coast within the next couple of weeks?
posted by halogen
on Jun 28, 2012 -
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I want to send a post-interview thank you email but I am a little unclear as to the best way of going about it. I had five 30 minute sessions with one to two employees each; the last session was with the head of the group I'd be working for.
Should I send one email to all employees, an email to each session group, an email to only the senior interviewers (3 people), or some other iteration?
posted by Groovytimes
on May 14, 2012 -
13 answers
I mailed a letter from DC eight days ago. As of today, the letter still hasn't arrived in Phoenix. Is it lost?
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posted by Spurious
on Apr 10, 2012 -
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What is the best way to get two snowboards (and associated gear) from Seattle, Washington to Aspen, Colorado if we don't know where we will be staying while there? Flying with the snowboards would be hugely inconvenient, since travel plans include two continents and several cities with extended stopovers before we eventually meet up in Aspen for NYE.
posted by halogen
on Dec 5, 2011 -
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Smartest way to consolidate a large international order from Amazon.com? A big enough order to get free shipping within the US, and of mostly small and light items from multiple vendors, but international shipping will add several hundred to the cost. This is to Singapore, but the Singapore service (Vpost.com.sg) is frankly lousy, and I'd like an alternative.
posted by viggorlijah
on Oct 5, 2011 -
4 answers
Seeking recommendations for dealing with many Wordpress sites from one central location. I have a number of personal sites, plus work related sites, and would like a secure, central way to deal with them all – plus a wishpony that is probably not even a spark in some stallion's eye...
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posted by taz
on Sep 29, 2011 -
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Can I rely on Russian post or any courier service to deliver a small gift to just outside of Moscow?
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posted by outlier
on Aug 30, 2011 -
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What is the cheapest reliable way to mail a book (about 10" x 12" x 1") from the continental USA to the UK?
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posted by endless_forms
on Aug 29, 2011 -
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Weird computer technical problem pertaining to the POST and bootup stages of conputer use. Details inside.
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posted by dougrayrankin
on Jul 30, 2011 -
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Canada Post: Since the back to work legislation, Canada Post seems to be rationing my mail. What I mean is, since they resumed mail delivery, my house has not gotten more than two letters a day. My neighbors have said similar things about their mail deliveries, no one is getting more than the lightest trickle of mail. I'm waiting on a number of items that I know have been in their system for a month... What's going on?
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posted by smitt
on Jul 6, 2011 -
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Someone apparently opened a package in my mailbox and stole the mp4 player I had ordered from e-bay. There was no indication on the mailing envelope what the contents were: The person must have felt the package and guessed what it contained. They left the ripped open package on our porch, along with some other mail, and two Netflix envelopes, ripped open also, for a person further up the street. What do we do about this?
posted by ragtimepiano
on Jun 30, 2011 -
12 answers
I can't find a definitive answer on the use of 'post' as a prefix. In particular with 'post approval' meaning 'after approval'.
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posted by unliteral
on May 30, 2011 -
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Do I have to pay customs duties to have a computer I left behind in Ireland shipped to California?
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posted by AndNeverWell
on May 6, 2011 -
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JET (teaching English in Japan) vs AmeriCorps (cool community stuff in my city). Or, how do you decide between two paths that seem comparably engaging/difficult/unknown?
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posted by elephantsvanish
on Apr 21, 2011 -
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I need to mail some important documents from the US to Russia via a method that is trackable. The cheapest price I can find is $28.95 via USPS. Does anyone know of a less expensive method that includes tracking information? These are just paper documents, not a package. Thanks!
posted by emily37
on Jan 5, 2011 -
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How can I most easily and inexpensively send small holiday gifts from France to the US?
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posted by sucre
on Nov 13, 2010 -
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I need to receive business shipments. How can I keep my postal mailbox costs low?
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posted by mintchip
on Nov 3, 2010 -
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I am looking for a service which can receive my postal mail and forward it internationally. I have seen some companies [eg
1,
2,
3] advertised which offer to scan envelopes and then forward/shred/open and scan contents according to instructions issued from a website. Has anybody had any experience with services of this sort?
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posted by rongorongo
on Oct 4, 2010 -
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As ugly as they are, I'd like to find a plugin or other way to add Huffington Post style slideshows to a Wordpress installed blogged. Does anything out there exist?
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posted by Unsomnambulist
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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How does one go about changing the name of the street their house is on? (United States)
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posted by sandra_s
on Sep 3, 2010 -
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I'm trying to access a series of WaPo articles from 1968-1971, but I'm not having any luck with LexisNexis, Proquest, or the newspaper's website. I know the names/dates of the articles, but they aren't showing up in my LexisNexis searches. (My library's microfilm WaPo collection only goes back to 1974.) Does anyone have another idea of where to look for archived newspaper articles online?
posted by LeonBernstein
on Aug 5, 2010 -
5 answers
Quick question about the USPS: Can I ship a
flat-rate Priority Mail envelope by printing postage for it online and then dropping it in a blue USPS mailbox? Or do I need to take it to a post office?
posted by mekily
on Aug 5, 2010 -
13 answers
