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What should new USPS mail trucks look like?: Morning Report
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1. Mail truck teasing
The Gawker Media site Jalopnik had a little fun with the news that the U.S. Postal Service is looking into a new truck fleet.
Ten vehicles that should be America's next mail truck http://t.co/i58RfBqjno pic.twitter.com/k0xDJBNOHi
— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) February 17, 2015
Suggestions ranged from a self-driving car, to a drone, to a Mercedes Unimong.
2. APWU's Hollywood endorsement
"Actor Danny Glover, the son of two postal workers and the face in videos promoting a new postal advocacy group, will join union leaders when the [wage talks with the U.S. Postal Service] open, the APWU announced."
3. This is Jeopardy!
"As it does from time to time, the long-running television game show Jeopardy! introduced a new stamp category for the episode broadcast Feb. 17: 'Singers on Postage Stamps.'"
4. Yesterday's most-viewed post
The 'Strange Stamp Squad': Which country issued this one?
5. Being social
‘Strange Stamp Squad' investigates migraine-inducing new issue
35 rare 5c China Imperial Dragons found in attic in UK
Many stamp societies make their journals available online
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