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09-24-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, and I still have no scheduled activities. This is good. Today is World Maritime Day, Remember Me Thursday, World Bollywood Day, National Cherries Jubilee Day, International Week of Deaf People, National Mofongo Day, Lash Stylists’ Day, Seed Gathering Season, and International Day of Birmingham (UK). My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
09-23-2026 - Mail Order Dealer Website Idea #7 - Association Website - A handful of associations for Mail-Order dealers have existed over the years. Still, as far as I know, none have had a real website. I say "real website" because one such association did have a website. Still, it consisted of one paragraph that said something like, "For information on the (insert name here) association, write to (insert address here). I never understood this. They had the power of the Internet at their fingertips; they had visitors on their website, and they still wanted them to write for information? They could have given a full description of the association and asked for the membership order. Create an association - maybe a "discount advertising" club - and create a website for it. There are many possibilities.
09-23-2026 - Sometimes I get multiple dealers sending me the same program over a period of a week or two. It makes me think whoever is running the program has exhausted the old mailing list and, for some reason, is holding on to the fresh names. It reminds me of the movie Glengarry Glen Ross when Alec Baldwin says, "These are the new leads, these are the Glengarry leads, and to you they're gold, and you don't get them."
09-23-2026 - Quoting the U.S. Postal Service news release - "The U.S. Postal Service continues its tradition of celebrating Kwanzaa, the pan-African holiday observed each year from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, with a new stamp dedicated today at the 111th annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History."
09-23-2026 - UPDATED - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
09-23-2026 - Headlines - Mortgage rates surge above 7%, Nearly half of adults under 30 live with parents, Postal worker threw out 300 mail-in ballots out of self-described ‘laziness,’ DOJ says.
09-23-2026 - REPOST - This is a call for a different kind of 100-circulation adsheet - a "progressively mailed" adsheet. How does it work? These adsheets hold a maximum of 100 100-word ads. No display ads. New ads go to the top, and the 101st ad falls off the bottom. The latest dealer posting an ad gets a copy - about 6 sheets of paper. Every ad gets 100 mailings; they just don't get it very fast. This means no pressure on you, the publisher, to mail a certain number within a certain time period. This pressure has caused more than a few adsheet publishers to grow "claimed circulation" noses a foot long! No dealer has to advertise in every adsheet every month. Rotate through them. Since each publisher mails to its own in-house list, an endless variety of prospects will see your ads. (This post was previously published at one of my other journals.)
09-23-2026 - UPDATED - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
09-23-2026 - UPDATED - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
09-23-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, and I have nothing important on my schedule. Our forecast shows temperatures under 100 degrees for the upcoming week. I hope this means we’re actually on our downhill slide toward Winter. Of course, I don’t want it to get too cold. That's the problem with this area; we're either freezing or burning up. The "in-between" periods are far too short. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
09-22-2026 - From the U.S. Postal Service - If you want you mail to arrive by Christmas, 2026, you should mail by the following dates: 2026 Holiday Shipping Dates for Contiguous U.S. (Lower 48 States) - USPS Ground Advantage service: Dec. 17, First-Class Mail: Dec. 17, Priority Mail: Dec. 18, Priority Mail Express: Dec. 19. 2026 Holiday Shipping Dates for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories - USPS Ground Advantage service: Dec. 16, First-Class Mail: Dec. 17, Priority Mail: Dec. 18, Priority Mail Express: Dec. 19.
09-26-2026 - Headlines - Department of Justice files indictment against Utah postal worker for allegedly disposing of mail-in ballots, Chicago Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Trafficking Fentanyl Through the Mail.
09-22-2026 - Just the usual gifting programs in the mail today. One sales circular had 20 spaces for me to send $3 to. I wonder if the day will ever come when we’ve outgrown the corny pots full of gold and piles of cash? Probably not, because there will always be people drawn to shiny objects.
09-26-2026 - Headlines - Oil could top $150 a barrel if supplies tighten further, Food Sick! Now Even Pasta Recalled, Amazon Drones Overwhelm Texas Suburb, Nasdaq climbs to fresh all-time high; S&P 500 little changed, Wendy's faces 300 closures due to crippling beef prices, Former Placerville, CA postal employee sentenced to prison for stealing and tampering with the narcotic prescriptions of United States military veterans.
09-22-2026 - From the U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Mail, Internet, or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule - The Rule, issued in 1975, requires sellers who solicit buyers to order merchandise through the mail, via the Internet, or by phone to have a reasonable basis to expect that the sellers can ship within the advertised time frame, or, if no time frame is specified, within 30 days. The Rule also requires that, when a seller cannot ship within the promised time, the seller must obtain the buyer’s consent to a delay in shipping or refund payment for the unshipped merchandise.
09-22-2026 - UPDATED - Economics Daily
09-22-2026 - UPDATED - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
09-22-2026 - UPDATED - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
09-22-2026 - UPDATED - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
09-22-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and the First Day of Fall! Today is also National White Chocolate Day, Hobbit Day, World Rhino Day, World Car Free Day, National Ice Cream Cone Day, Falls Prevention Awareness Day, National Elephant Appreciation Day, International Week of Deaf People, and Seed Gathering Season. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.