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Recent Examples of mailersThe state party said the mailers were specific to the runoff election, and that an additional mailer has been sent to voters with a primary ballot application.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2026
The instructions even say that while packages are X-rayed, greeting cards and postcards are not, which is why the journalist chose to embed the tracker in a postcard.
Federal prosecutors and digital forensic experts have relied on a massive trove of electronic messages to build their case.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2026
The Unlimited Plan includes unlimited messages per month, subject to a fair use policy, as well as priority customer support and priority access to new features and future models.
The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5.
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Kristy High,
CNBC,
26 Aug. 2026
Each month, the book gifting program mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income.
As the day winds down, get cozy in the living room for a game of cards and a glass of South African wine, or watch the sun set from the stone terrace.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Oct. 2026
Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, was alerted to the fact that Israeli SIM cards that had been distributed to Hamas fighters were activated — a sign of their imminent intention to cross into Israel.
In our era of incessant texting, the concept of these radio missives struck me as both archaic and romantic.
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Jordan Salama,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2026
Satenstein spent her years at Vogue writing about all things vintage—dashing off missives about everything from must-have pieces from Tom Ford’s Gucci to Nicolas Ghesquière’s legendary Balenciaga era.
Ada Scott, an elderly reporter who was close to retirement, regularly wrote glowing dispatches about Puente in the 1960s for The East Yolo Record, a newspaper that operated in what is now West Sacramento.
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Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2026
In the spirit of snacking, here are bite-sized dispatches from some of the Vogue team’s favorite foods at fashion week.