The US Postal Service By The Numbers Infographic

The price of a First Class stamp is slated for a January 2011 hike, up one penny from 44 to 45 cents.

That's an 11-cent increase in the last decade, compared to just a 5-cent jump through the first three-quarters of the entire 20th century. The below infographic puts the state of federal mail delivery into historical context.

Source:
http://kiplinger.com/infographics/us_postal_service_by_the_numbers/map.html

Utah mulls renaming MLK Day in honor of gunmaker

Under state Sen.

Mark Madsen's proposed law, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., would share his holiday with John Moses Browning, an early 20th-century gunmaker behind such famous gun brands as Browning, Colt and Winchester.

Source:
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/uta-mlk-day-renamed-gunmaker/