She said if was "imperative" the resident received his mail earlier, he had the option of setting up a mail collect service, allowing customers to "collect their own mail" free of charge.

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If you often receive these 0% interest rate offers in the mail, collect those offers for a while.

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The agency said people who normally received benefit payments through the mail should collect it from their nearest post office.

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It will stop the spam that spoofs its origins because it only wants to collect live e-mail addresses, rather than sell goods.

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Airline staff at head-office received an e-mail telling them to collect their belongings and go home.

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Ultimately, however, the compact states want Congress to pass a law requiring online and mail-order merchants to collect their taxes.

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"Online and mail-order retailers should collect sales tax at the point of purchase, too, so there will be a level playing field, " says Jason Brewer, a spokesman for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which includes nine of the 10 largest merchants.

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Cash4Gold evidently thought that TV advertising, mail order and the internet would allow them to collect materials at less than the value created.

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There are some retailers, direct marketers, mail order catalogs and others that oppose the current move to allow states to require these channels to collect and remit sales tax.

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The Royal Mail said it wanted to keep its crown offices open until 1600 GMT to give people more time to collect pensions and child benefits.

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