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ST. LOUIS NEWS TODAY - Sunday, December 17, 2006
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Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006 - Santa Claus greeted visitors mailing their holiday cards and letters at collection boxes at the Main Post Office, located at 1720 Market Street in downtown St. Louis.
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Santa Claus Makes a Special Visit to the Post Office
ST. LOUIS, (SLFP.com), December 17, 2006 - Santa Claus will greet all good boys and girls and their parents who are mailing their holiday cards, lists, and letters at collection boxes at the Main Post Office, located at 1720 Market Street in downtown St. Louis, Saturday, December 23, 2006, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Americans will place more than 900 million pieces of mail with the U.S. Postal Service on Monday, Dec. 18, the busiest mailing day of the year. About 280 million pieces of that total will be cards and letters. This is an increase of about 230 million in volume over the average mailing day.
Monday, Dec. 18 is expected to be the busiest mailing day of the year for over 700,000 Postal Service employees across the country. Wednesday, Dec. 20 may be the busiest delivery day of the year for 37,000 Post Offices and stations and for 269 Processing and Distribution Centers.
The Postal Service also is seeing a dramatic increase in holiday mail to military installations in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the first 14 days in December, there have been 12 more 747 cargo aircraft dispatched with mail to the Middle East than during the same period last year.
That is almost an extra 747 lift a day every day. Last year, the Postal Service delivered more than 10.5 million pounds of mail to military installations overseas during the holiday period. This year, more than 16 million pounds of mail have been delivered since November 1.
Blunt Requests Disaster Declaration following Deadly Winter Storm
ST. LOUIS, (SLFP.com), December 17, 2006 - Gov. Matt Blunt has requested a Federal Disaster Declaration for Public Assistance for 11 counties and the City of St. Louis as a result of this month's deadly winter storm.
In a release, Governor Blunt said,"For many families and in many jurisdictions the costs of this storm continue to rise as clean-up, debris removal and recovery progress. My request ensures our communities have access to the resources they need to forge ahead after the recent deadly weather and extended power outages."
Blunt is asking for Federal Disaster Public Assistance for Boone, Cole, Dent, Greene, Iron, Moniteau, Reynolds, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis and Washington Counties and the City of St. Louis.
The storm system hit Missouri between November 30 and December 2, leaving 11 Missourians dead and causing power outages to more than 300,000 Missourians. The Joint Damage Assessment Teams identified over $7.5 million of eligible damages in all categories of public assistance. If approved, the request for assistance would reimburse communities for emergency protective services directly related to the disaster response, debris removal and repair of storm damaged public property.
Blunt also asked the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to continue working with local jurisdictions to collect additional damage information for a possible Disaster Declaration request to the Small Business Administration (SBA). An SBA declaration could provide low-interest SBA loans to qualified homeowners, renters and businesses.
Blunt's request for the Presidential Disaster Declaration was submitted Friday through the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII Office in Kansas City.
I-44, I-70 in Missouri Among Nation's Most Improved Roads, Truckers Say
ST. LOUIS, (SLFP.com), December 17, 2006 - Interstates 44 and 70 in Missouri are among the nation's most improved highways, according to a new survey of truckers nationwide. The survey results show that I-44 in Missouri is the second-most improved stretch of highway in the country, with I-70 coming in third.
More than 400 truckers offered their opinions on highway conditions in the survey conducted by Overdrive magazine, a publication serving the commercial motor carrier industry.
"No one knows road conditions better than truckers, so I'm very pleased they've found Missouri's interstates among the most improved," said Pete Rahn, director of the Missouri Department of Transportation. "Our work on the Smooth Roads Initiative is already paying off."
This two-year initiative, completed earlier this month, brought the state's 2,200 most heavily traveled highways up to good condition, including all interstate highways. Two years ago, three-fourths of these highways were in fair to poor condition. Improvements included smoother pavement, brighter signs and stripes, median guard cable and emergency reference markers.
Truckers drive 4.5 million miles a day on interstates 70 and 44 in Missouri.
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