Figures obtained by the BBC suggest about 6, 000 people have been given vouchers for emergency food parcels by benefits officials in the last year.
In recent land auctions it has snatched prime land parcels by offering what some say are outlandish prices.
The governor says he knows how to develop Bukidnon, thank you very much, and it isn't by dividing estates into parcels that he believes can't be farmed efficiently or by distributing land to laborers who he believes can't manage it properly.
Many have been created by workers breaking off parcels of land from collective farms, in regions where local law or practice has permitted it.
Royal Mail has reported a big rise in half-year operating profits, helped by growth at its parcels delivery business as more people shop online.
In the last 12 months, the number of food parcels issued by Trussell Trust centres overall has reached almost 300, 000 - more than double the year before.
Deutsche Post, for example, was fined by the European Commission in 2001 for abusing its monopoly by allowing its global parcels business to receive big subsidies from its letters franchise.
Revenues from UK parcel deliveries were up by 13%, while parcels now account for 47% of revenue across the group.
Delivery firms can save lots of money by sending a batch of parcels to a single place, where delivery is guaranteed, so they are naturally keen to provide the service.
He said parcels of gifts were sent by its residents while the battalion was on operations in Afghanistan.
When all goes well, the company likes to say parcels are only touched twice by human hands: upon unloading and loading into ULDs.
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The algorithms that came out of Powell's lab in the 1980s had changed the industry's "less-than-truckload" segment (consisting of parcels and smaller freight) by mapping out a more efficient way to plan routes and using terminals that break down shipments.
It would also like to boost the top line by filling empty spaces in the belly of each bus with parcels.
Of the roughly 16 million parcels handled daily in China, over 10 million are generated by clicks on Taobao and TMall, a marketplace for brands and larger vendors.
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Turns out that in many town and villages, excessive levels might have been found on a few parcels (often less than a few acres, owned and tilled by an elderly couple), among dozens or hundreds of larger districts.
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Not by coincidence, pulling that land off the market will also enhance the value of parcels still in the banks' hands, aiding their recovery from their bad-debt woes.
It estimated that half the amount spent by the average family on postal services was the cost of sending large letters and small parcels.
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The other papers refused to disclose how much they paid for their properties but insisted that the deals were legal. (The parcels subsequently appreciated wildly.) Other perks include heavy regulatory protection from competition and forgiveness by the police for such things as accidents caused by newspaper employees.
We based our rankings on the median home sales prices between July 2007 and June 2008 for each ZIP, as collected by First American CoreLogic, a national real estate data collection and research firm that tracks over 150 million parcels in over 3, 000 counties, amounting to 99% of all real estate transactions.
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