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The Late Great Flat Rate Support Our Soldiers Date!

Sat May 05, 2007 at 08:20:05 AM PDT

This is the second in a series of diaries I'll be posting this week about the impact of the upcoming USPS rate increase on our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For those of you who missed it, here's a link to the first one:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

I'm trying to get the word out to everyone who relies on the Priority Flat Rate service to send items to soldiers at an affordable rate. I'm also trying to encourage people who've never sent a package to a soldier to do so before the rate goes up.

I send out packages almost every week, and, most of the time, the cost of the postage exceeds the cost of the items I'm sending.  True, that's mostly because I'm a skinflinty shopper, but still.  The cost of the postage isn't trivial, especially to military families who are on a tight budget as it is.

This is an update on my progress...

As you can see, I've now got a title, not just for this diary, but for my action. (Gotta have a title!) I also got a domain name and now I have a website that's about half finished.  I plan to finish it up this weekend for the Big Release! on Monday morning, although I'll probably continue to fiddle with it as I think of things through the week.

I would really appreciate some DKos feedback on what I've done so far:

http://www.lategreatflatratedate.info/

I would appreciate hearing about any typos or glitches, and I welcome any suggestions for content as long as they aren't too ambitious...I'm working a very short time frame here and need to KISS.

It would be especially helpful if some of you would try to download the flyer on the Get Word Out page.  I haven't done this much. The flyer is still in Word. It looks great when I download it, but I'm thinking it might not hold up so well if downloaded by folks who have a different version than I do. (I don't necessarilyy mean the 6.0 level version, but the 6.1.2.3.3.6 level versions, which I understand can have slightly different versions of the fonts.) I will probably convert it to PDF anyway, but I'm still curious as to what happens when people try to download it in Word.

Thanks for the assist, you kwazy Kossacks!

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