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Gun-Sales Ring in Brooklyn Broken Up, Officials Say

November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Gun-Sales Ring in Brooklyn Broken Up, Officials Say

Against a backdrop of recent shootings of bystanders, including a 13-year-old boy from Queens and a 15-year-old girl from the Bronx, city officials and members of a civil rights group took action against gun violence on Monday, albeit in different ways and at different events.

At City Hall, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other officials announced they had broken up an illegal gun-sales operation in Brooklyn, while in Times Square and cities across the country, the civil rights group, the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, gathered supporters for a “day of outrage.”

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Rape accuser: I jailed man on lie

November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Rape accuser: I jailed man on lie

A construction worker imprisoned for nearly three years was wrongfully convicted of a knifepoint gang rape the accuser now says she made up, prosecutors said yesterday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers didn’t immediately rule after prosecutors said they would consent to overturning William McCaffrey’s conviction, instead setting a Dec. 10 court date.

McCaffrey was convicted of rape, kidnapping and other charges in 2006 after Biurny Peguero said he and two accomplices raped her.

ANOTHER DNA VICTORY!

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Chinese Drywall Linked to Corrosion

November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Chinese Drywall Linked to Corrosion

Federal investigators reported on Monday that a “strong association” exists between chemicals in Chinese drywall installed in thousands of homes during the housing boom and electrical problems in those homes.

In addition, investigators said that the drywall was a possible cause of respiratory problems reported by homeowners, brought on by hydrogen sulfide gas emitted from the imported drywall in combination with formaldehyde, which is common in new homes.






Kevin Lee/Bloomberg News


Sheets of drywall on sale at a market in Shanghai. Chinese drywall is blamed for corrosion in some new homes in America.

The commission has sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking that the service allow homeowners to deduct drywall-related costs as a casualty loss on their federal income tax returns.

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VIRUS WARNING

November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

 

PLEASE FORWARD
 
 ATTENTION ALL GROUP MEMBERS:

Virus update (NO JOKE)

This is legitimate. Please pass this along to your friends.
The newest virus circulating is
The UPS/FedEx/DHL Delivery Failure…

You will receive an email from UPS/Fed Ex Service along with a packet number.
It will say that they were unable to deliver
A package sent to you on such-and-such a date.

It then asks you to print out
The invoice copy attached..

DON’T TRY TO PRINT THIS.
IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS!

Pass this warning on to all your PC operators
At work and home.

This virus has caused Millions of dollars
In damage in the past few days.

Snopes confirms that it is real.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

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November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Ballet Hispanico New York Season



Angelica Burgos and Waldemar Quiñones-Villanueva
Photo by: Cheryl Mann

Angelica Burgos and Waldemar Quiñones-Villanueva
Photo by: Cheryl Mann

Ballet Hispanico New York Season
Dec. 1st-13th
THE JOYCE THEATER
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
New York, NY

Ballet Hispanico fuses dynamic Latino movement, pulsing rhythms and rich traditions with classical and contemporary dance forms to create an experience in which theatricality and passion propel every move.

Their 2009 season at The Joyce Theater features several world premieres, including a LIVE music collaboration between choreographer Ron De Jesús and Latin Jazz sensation Oscar Hernández, played by

special guest artist Arturo O’Farrill.

Join their 13 dancers on an unforgettable journey through Latino music and cultures. Tickets start at $10. For more information, click here or call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800.

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Well-versed journalist Evelyn Cunningham writing piece on ‘unknown black history’

November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Well-versed journalist Evelyn Cunningham writing piece on ‘unknown black history’
Evelyn Cunningham, 93, has interviewed everyone from Martin Luther King to President Obama and is currently working on a piece focusing on black history.
Finkelstein for News
Evelyn Cunningham, 93, has interviewed everyone from Martin Luther King to President Obama and is currently working on a piece focusing on black history.

She has interviewed and worked with some of the most historically significant people of the past 60 years; Nelson Rockefeller, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Sheriff Eugene (Bull) Connor, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Yet at 93 years old and after a journalism career that began in 1940 with the Pittsburgh Courier, it’s American women of all races who most impress Evelyn Cunningham.

Seated on an overstuffed chair in the sunny study of her Riverside Drive apartment in Harlem, the television tuned to CNN, Cunningham said “I’m still a reporter, every inch of me.”

Though she doesn’t get out as much as she used to, Cunningham said she’s busy.

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Hunting for Turkeys, for the First Time

November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Hunting for Turkeys, for the First Time
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times


John T. Rauh, 42, a state hunting instructor, headed out around 5:45 a.m. on Saturday, the first day of the first wild turkey hunting season on Long Island. The season ends Wednesday.

YAPHANK, N.Y. — At around 5:45 a.m., armed with a Mossberg 835 12-gauge shotgun painted in camouflage colors and his “sippy cup,” a travel mug full of coffee, John T. Rauh pulled his big red Ford F-250 out of the driveway, his Navy dog tags swinging from the rearview mirror.

He had permission on Saturday to scout out a large patch of private land where he normally hunts for deer.

Mr. Rauh was about to embark on a first, both for him and for Long Island: New York State approved wild turkey hunting in Suffolk County, and the five-day season began Saturday.

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Nat’l Day of Outrage Locations

November 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Nat’l Day of Outrage Locations and Contact Info

 

NATIONAL DAY OF OUTRAGE RALLY LOCATIONS

GENERAL INFORMATION CONTACT

National Action Network

Shanay King

(212) 690-3070

(877) NAN-HOJ1

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NEW YORK (NEW YORK CITY)

Location:

Times Square

At the Triangle (between 46th and 47th Streets)

New York City

 

PENNSYLVANIA (PHILADELPHIA)

Location:

Historic Berean Institute

1901 W. Girard Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19130

 

SOUTH JERSEY

Location:

All Wars Memorial Building

1510 Adriatic Avenue

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Steve Young (609) 992-9105 or

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MASSACHUSSETTS (BOSTON)

Location:

Malcolm X Park

MLK Boulevard

Roxbury, Massachussetts

 

NEW YORK (SYRACUSE)

Garland Brothers Funeral Home

143 W. Castle Street (@ South Salina Street)

Syracuse, New York

 

GEORGIA (ATLANTA)

Location:

NAN Regional Headquarters

632 Peeples Street

Atlanta, GA 30310

678.732.0405

 

ALABAMA (EUTAW)

Location:

Town Square

400 Morrow Avenue

Eutaw, Alabama 35462

206.222.9504

 

GEORGIA (SAVANNAH)

Location:

38th Street Park

Savannah, Georgia

912.927.0249

 

SOUTH CAROLINA (UPSTATE)

Location:

Anderson University

316 Boulevard

Anderson, SC 29621

864.940.5180

 

LOUISIANA (EUNICE)

Location:

Natalie Street Pavilion

Natalie Street

Eunice, Louisiana 70535

337.789.5266

 

NORTH CAROLINA (GREENSBORO)

Location:

NAN Headquarters

1610 East Market

Greensboro, NC

336. 707.9464/206.736.5927


ILLINOIS (CHICAGO)

Location:

109th & Aberdeen (behind Racine Courts Cooperative)

Chicago, Illinois

Contact: Reverend Toon

Phone:  (646) 981-5972

E-mail:

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OHIO (CLEVELAND)

Location:

12205 Imperial Avenue (@ E. 123rd Street)

Contact: Richard Jones

Phone:  (216)803.3198/(206)208.8658

 

WAUKEGAN (ILLINOIS)

Location:

Smoking Gun Shop

2010 Washington Street (@ Lewis Ave)

Contact: Christopher Banks

(847) 249-7238

 

SOUTHFIELD (MICHIGAN)

Location:

Action Impact Gun Shop

25992 W. 8 Mile Road

(between Beech Road & Inkster Road)

Contact: Caree Eason

(313) 304-8838

 

URBANA, ILLINOIS

Location:

Champaign County Courthouse

101 E. Main Street

Urbana, IL 61801

Contact: Bro. Aaron & Sis. Carol Ammons

Time: 1:00pm

 

Reception following the rally:

Independent Media Center

202 S. Broadway Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801

 

PORTLAND, OREGON

Location:

Reflections Coffee Shop & Talking Drums Bookstore

446 NE Killingsworth

Portland, OR  97211

Contact: Chapter President, Ruth Pitts-London

Time: 11:00am

 

HOUSTON, TEXAS

Location:

Kings Row Apartments

4141 Barberry Drive

Contact: Rev. Robert M. Gilmore

Time: 1:00pm

 

NORTH CITY, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Location:

Fountain Park

Between Kings Highway and Bayard Street

North City, St. Louis, Missouri 63113

Contact: Anna Nicholes

 

CALIFORNIA (LOS ANGELES)

Location:

Expo Center (In front)

3980 South Menlo Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90037

(Martin Luther King Jr Blvd and Menlo – east of Vermont)

Contact: Rev. K.W. Tulloss,  NAN LA -323-370-3144

 

NEW JERSEY (NEWARK)

Location:

Newark Tech High School

91 W. Market (@ Wickliff Street)

Newark, NJ

Contact:  Baruti Kafele (973) 412-2270 or

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SOUTH CAROLINA (HORRY COUNTY)

Abdullah S. Mustafa, President

Location:

Smith Jones Recreation Park

415 Hwy 378

Conway, SC 29526

 

VIRGINIA (HAMPTON)

Location:

1st Baptist Church

229 N. King Street

Hampton, VA

Contact: Gaylene Kanoyton (757)287-0277

 

ILLINOIS (CHICAGO)

Location:

Kennedy King College

63rd and Halsted

U Building – Room 156

Chicago, IL

9:30am – 12:30pm

 

 

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Why We’re Not ‘Post-Racial’

November 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Why We’re Not ‘Post-Racial’

Jesse Jackson versus Artur Davis.

  • When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn’t have anticipated being accused of selling out his race.

Mr. Davis was the only black Member to oppose the legislation, and his vote earned him a rebuke from Jesse Jackson at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation reception Wednesday night. “We even have blacks voting against the health-care bill,” said Mr. Jackson. “You can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man.”

Mr. Davis is running for governor in a state that John McCain won last year, and his vote was surely influenced by the reality that Alabamans aren’t the biggest fans of ObamaCare. The Congressmen, to his credit, took the high ground in response to Mr. Jackson’s low blow. “One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” he said in a statement referencing Mr. Jackson’s 1988 Presidential bid. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”

Liberals insist that America still isn’t “post-racial,” notwithstanding the election of President Obama. But when a politician’s skin color is gratuitously invoked in a debate about whether the government should have more control of health care, you have to wonder if the political left has any serious interest in a color-blind society. Former President Jimmy Carter suggests that whites who oppose the President’s policies are racists; Mr. Jackson says blacks who oppose them are betraying their race.

Even in the age of a black President, too many liberals still believe they have more to gain from identity politics than from a post-racial America.

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A14

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For the Soul

November 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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For the Soul

A FEW truths existed in my house growing up: baseball games were worth watching only when the Yankees won, lateness was inexcusable, and the chicken soup from Second Avenue Deli was the best cure for a cold.


EL MALECÓN (4141 Broadway, at 175th Street) has a television that was tuned to a cooking show on how to prep a chicken for roasting when I visited, but José Ovando, who has been cooking the soup for 14 years, needs no lessons. The Dominican sopa de pollo ($4.50) is comfort in a bowl, with meat falling off the drumstick and thigh bones into a light-brown broth seasoned with cilantro and a bit of adobo. It’s made to order, in a way: Patrons can specify less yuca, more broth. Mr. Ovando said the secret is mashing the starting ingredients so the flavors saturate the water.



Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times


EL MALECÓN (4141 Broadway, at 175th Street) offers sopa de pollo ($4.50).

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Affordable housing units in Bronx will become the first green block in nation

November 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Affordable housing units in Bronx will become the first green block in nation

Water doesn’t trickle down from the right basin of Jeanette Davis‘ sink – it pours.

But starting this winter, her building and its nine six-story companions along a historic row between Lenox and Seventh Aves. will be among the first affordable housing blocks in the country to undergo a green overhaul.

This isn’t the first time the row of 10 buildings has been at the center of Harlem history.

In 1910, the buildings became the first properties that far north in Manhattan to be bought by an African-American landlord – in this case, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, said Michael Henry Adams, a Harlem historian. St. Philip’s was then the wealthiest church with a black congregation in the city.

Among the early black occupants was photographer James Van Der Zee, whose first studio in Harlem was at 107 W. 135th St., Adams noted.

This row of apartment buildings on W. 135 St. in the Bronx will be the first affordable housing units in the nation to undergo a green overhaul.
Savulich/News
NOTE: THE ARTICLE REFERS TO 135TH STREET IN HARLEM, NOT THE BRONX.

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Holiday Lighting

November 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Holiday Lighting

Sunday, December 6, 2009

3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.

Advance registration not required. For more information, please call (212) 860-1370.

This event is generously sponsored by Con Edison.

This program is part of the Central Park Conservancy’s Winter Holiday Program series. For more information and to view the complete Winter Holiday Programs schedule, please visit www.centralparknyc.org/winterholidays.

Location

Central Park

At the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (located inside Central Park at 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues)
Manhattan

Cost

Free  

Contact Number

(212) 860-1370

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City Hosts Third Weekend of H1N1 Vaccination Clinics

November 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

City Hosts Third Weekend of H1N1 Vaccination Clinics

Two-day vaccination centers will operate in all five boroughs this weekend

Get vaccinatedFor the third time this month, the Health Department will conduct H1N1 vaccination clinics in all five boroughs this Saturday and Sunday (November 21 and 22). People in the following groups will be able to receive vaccine at these clinics:

  • Pregnant women
  • Anyone 4 through 24 years old
  • People 25 through 64 with health conditions that make influenza more dangerous. These include asthma, diabetes, chronic heart and lung conditions, kidney failure, or a weakened immune system.
  • Anyone who lives with or cares for children less than 6 months old
  • Health care workers who have direct contact with patients and cannot receive vaccine through their employers.

Learn more

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NYPD Stop And Frisk Beat Keeps On Keeping On

November 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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NYPD Stop And Frisk Beat Keeps On Keeping On

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The NYCLU’s Bust Card (PDF)
The NYPD’s stop and frisk policy shows no signs of abating. The latest data on the controversial program shows that the NYPD is on track to stop a record number of New Yorkers this year.

According to the NYCLU latest report, police made more than 404,000 stops of New Yorkers during the first nine months of the year, the majority of whom were black and Latino. Only seven percent of those stopped were given a summons and just six percent were arrested. Between July and September alone, 137,894 people were questioned, with nearly nine out of 10 of these stops resulting in no charges or citations.

Police claim that these stops deter criminals, preemptively at times, and that the NYCLU is distorting “the statistics by defining an “innocent” person as someone who hasn’t been convicted of a crime.”

they’re keeping a database of names of all the people stopped, questioned, frisked, and released each year.
By Ben Yakas

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Segregation and Subprime Loans

November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Report…
Segregation and Subprime Loans
A new report from the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University found black individuals in more segregated urban areas across the country are more likely to receive subprime loans than those same borrowers in less segregated areas. For New York City, the report found those living in non-white areas were more likely to receive subprime loans.

For the full report, visit here.

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Plan for share-a-ride reduced cab fares moves ahead, TLC says

November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Plan for share-a-ride reduced cab fares moves ahead, TLC says

Group taxi rides in Manhattan are moving toward reality.

A pilot program at three locations where two or more riders can hop into a cab for a discounted fare should be rolling out next month, the Taxi & Limousine Commission said Thursday.

“We hope that before the end of the year we’ll have at least three stands open,” said TLC Chairman Matthew Daus.

The planned locations – where strangers would board the same taxi – are 57th St. and Eighth Ave., 72nd St. and Third Ave. and 72nd St. and Columbus Ave. All routes will proceed down Park Ave. to 42nd St.

Passengers will be allowed to exit cabs at any point along the way. Prices will be $3 for the 57th St. stand and $4 for the uptown locations – up to 50% less than meter fares.

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Health Department Report Finds Continued Rise in Diabetes

November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Health Department Report Finds Continued Rise in Diabetes

9% of adult New Yorkers now carry the diagnosis, and 23% are on the verge

DiabetesDiabetes continues to rise in New York City, consigning tens of thousands of New Yorkers to possible disability and early death, and also fueling racial and economic disparities in health. A new report, Diabetes Among New York City Adults, finds that 9.1% of adult New Yorkers carried the diagnosis in 2007 – an increase of 13%, or 68,000 cases, since 2002. The recognized citywide rate now significantly exceeds the national rate (7.5%) and threatens to climb even higher. An estimated 200,000 New Yorkers have undiagnosed diabetes. Some 23% have blood-sugar levels that place them on the borderline, and more than half of adult New Yorkers are overweight or obese – conditions that greatly increase the risk of diabetes.

Learn more
Read the report

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Boys are mutating into girls

November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Boys are mutating into girls

hermaphrodite boys turning into girlsNeedless to say, this aspect of our high-tech world is beyond horrifying.  Some of us have known about these facts for quite some time. One of the principal food sources for female hormones is soy, which is being consumed in huge amounts.

As we can see from this article, we are being bombarded by these health-threatening and gender-altering chemicals and hormones from a variety of sources, so just avoiding them in the diet is obviously not sufficient. Even the very clothes we or our children are wearing could be contributing to this mutation.

Very disturbing, indeed.

Why boys are turning into girls

Here’s something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.

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US Postal Service ends popular Santa letter program in Alaska

November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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US Postal Service ends popular Santa letter program in Alaska
Santa Clause, also known as Patrick Farmer, holds letters sent from children addresed to 'Santa Claus' that the US Postal Service will no longer deliver to volunteers.
Harrel/AP
Santa Clause, also known as Patrick Farmer, holds letters sent from children addresed to ‘Santa Claus’ that the US Postal Service will no longer deliver to volunteers.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won’t get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.

Last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child’s letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to tighten rules in such programs nationwide.

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Sugerencias para tus envíos durante las fiestas

November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Sugerencias para tus envíos durante las fiestas

(Tips for Mailing On Time During the Holidays)

La mayoría de los servicios postales se pueden hacer por Internet

16 DE NOVIEMBRE – Se aproxima la época de fiestas y para muchos se acerca también el momento de mandar cartas, tarjetas y regalos a sus seres queridos tanto dentro como fuera del país.

Cada año, entre el Día de Acción de Gracias y el 25 de diciembre, el Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos entrega más de 16 millones de cartas y paquetes. Para que tu trámite sea ágil y seguro, el Gobierno te ofrece los siguientes consejos.

Haz tu parte para minimizar problemas

Quizás el factor más importante para evitar demoras y otros problemas es escribir claramente tanto la información del destinatario como del remitente, incluyendo los números de la unidad o apartamento. Además, se sugiere considerar lo siguiente:

  • Si no conoces el código postal del destinatario, es mejor no ponerlo. El Servicio Postal prefiere no tenerlo que contar con uno equivocado. Puedes buscar el código si no lo tienes escribiendo la dirección del destinatario en la página de Internet del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos (en inglés).
  • Si estás mandando un paquete, elige una caja que sea lo suficientemente fuerte para proteger el contenido. Si éste es rompible, se recomienda escribir la palabra “FRAGILE” en inglés en la caja
  • Protege el contenido de los bienes con papel, periódicos o materiales para empacar como bolitas de aire de plástico, y asegúrate que el contenido del paquete esté empacado en forma compacta para que no se mueva durante el viaje
  • Extrae las baterías de los juguetes, envuélvelas, y colócalas a un lado del artículo. Se recomienda que las baterías sean nuevas y que estén en su paquete original
  • Incluye en el interior del paquete una etiqueta adicional con la dirección del destinatario y del remitente en caso que la caja se dañe durante el transcurso y no se pueda identificar el destino del mismo

Aprovecha la tecnología para hacer envíos al exterior

Mandar cartas, tarjetas o paquetes por correo no es como antes. Hoy en día se puede hacer prácticamente todo por Internet, incluso mandar correspondencia al extranjero.

En el portal del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos (en inglés) se pueden llenar los formularios de aduanas necesarios e imprimir sellos y etiquetas de direcciones, aunque estos servicios se ofrecen solamente en inglés. Además puedes solicitar que el cartero recoja los paquetes en tu casa sin costo adicional.

Los usuarios que utilizan estos servicios por Internet pueden recibir un descuento de entre el 5 y el 11 por ciento del costo, dependiendo del servicio de su preferencia.

Toma nota de las fechas

Una de las cosas más importantes que debes considerar cuando mandes por correo una carta o un paquete es saber la fecha límite en la que debes mandarlo para que llegue en la fecha que deseas.

Por ejemplo, las personas que esperan que su correspondencia llegue a México para el 25 de diciembre, deben mandar sus paquetes antes del 11 de diciembre por First Class Mail, el servicio más barato, o pueden mandarlos hasta el 22 de diciembre utilizando Global Express Guaranteed, el servicio de mayor costo del correo.

Para Centro y Sudamérica, las fechas límites de envíos de menor y mayor costo son el 4 y 21 diciembre, respectivamente. El Servicio Postal ofrece un calendario completo (en inglés) con las fechas claves de esta temporada. Estas fechas incluyen también envíos a bases militares.

Lo que no se puede mandar

El Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos tiene varias restricciones en relación a lo que se puede o no mandar por correo. Algunas cosas están prohibidas, como las bebidas alcohólicas. Otras cosas están permitidas pero tienen restricciones, incluyendo medicinas reguladas, armas de fuego y algunos animales.

La mejor forma de saber si algo puede o no mandarse por correo y si tiene restricciones de envío, es contactando a la oficina postal (en inglés) de tu comunidad.

Para aprender más sobre el envío de regalos y otros asuntos relacionados con la época de fiestas, consulta GobiernoUSA.gov, el portal oficial del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos en español y parte de la Administración de Servicios Generales (GSA) de EE. UU.


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