New Postal Rates Effective 4/17/2011

	First-Class Mail - Retail						Proposed			1.13.11
	LETTERS				FLATS				PARCELS
	Weight Not				Weight Not				Weight Not
	Over				Over				Over
	(ounces)				(ounces)				(ounces)
	1	0.44			1	0.88			1	1.71
	2	0.64			2	1.08			2	1.71
	3	0.84			3	1.28			3	1.71
	3.5	1.04			4	1.48			4	1.88
					5	1.68			5	2.05
	Postcard	0.29			6	1.88			6	2.22
					7	2.08			7	2.39
					8	2.28			8	2.56
					9	2.48			9	2.73
					10	2.68			10	2.90
					11	2.88			11	3.07
					12	3.08			12	3.24
					13	3.28			13	3.41
	Additional Ounce (Letters and Flats)					0.20
	Additional Ounce Rate (Parcels)					0.17
	Nonmachinable Surcharge (Letters only)					0.20

The Top 10 Personal and Business Insurance Tax Dos and Don'ts

When tax preparation time comes, there can be an array of questions about federal tax deductions and what to report as income on your federal tax return. This Insurance Tax Dos and Don'ts list of federal tax tips will help many with federal tax questions regarding insurance whether on a personal or business level.

Although some of the federal tax preparation points below may be confusing if one is not familiar with the federal tax laws, this list will still be very beneficial to even those who use a tax preparer.

Top 10 Animals that Cause Car Wrecks

We have all had it happen to us…  It’s late at night and you are driving on a country road or maybe even a highway in the middle of nowhere and then all of sudden something crosses the road in front of you.  A near miss and a notice to be on the lookout as generally, animals travel in packs and that probably was not the last animal you are going to encounter.  If all goes well we make it out of a tense driving situation without any road kill (sorry that is a common term whether you like it or not).  It is far from the intentional slaying of animals utilizing your vehicle, these are accidents where animals just happened to get in the way of your car driving down a perfectly good road.  It happens a lot more than you might think.