Starting May 17th, consumers and businesses will again be allowed to print personalized U.S. postage stampes from their personal computers, following the guidelines set by the U.S. Postal Service. This will be the second stage of a test by the U.S.P.S.; the first stage was shut down in 2004, when vendor Stamps.com failed to screen photos of Theodore Kaczynski and Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Romanian dictator.
Loans guaranteed in Westchester County, New York by the Small Business Administration increased by 187 percent to $23.4 million, for the six-month period ending March 31, 2005, compared to the same period one year earlier. An SBA official speculated that the economy in Westchester and nearby counties is stronger than elsewhere in New York. SBA lending increased 83 percent in the same time period for the total New York district.
Business Week reported on 5/2/05 that “there are nine million blogs out there, with 40,000 new ones popping up each day.” Rudofsky Associates will be posting news items and resource links on this blog, which has been created by the terrific folks at Beyond Paper
