Doctors, nurses, social workers or staff at housing associations can give people vouchers which are exchanged for parcels at the trust's food banks.
In the competition for parcels to be developed, the REITs with fat equity cushions have a tactical advantage over private firms that rely on bank loans for their construction costs.
The Consumers Union, which campaigns on behalf of individual customers, wants Congress to require food producers to use an electronic tracking system like the one Federal Express employs for parcels.
The driver regaled us with every fat reward he had gotten for returning parcels, and I told him about the half-dozen cabbies who had brought various forgotten briefcases and phones back to me over the years.
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The 276 inhabitants of the volcanic island still face a long wait for letters and parcels - mail comes via Cape Town and must be put on board a fishing vessel for the 2, 800-kilometre journey to the island.
The system, which is well-established in the UK, provides food parcels for those struggling to make ends meet.
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.
Providing food parcels for people most in need in the surrounding area, Ludlow Baptist Church said it was now working with about 100 people.
New land policy is reducing the amount of available parcels for single-family development in the region and pushing developers to build more-dense high-rise projects on remaining land, he said.
Although all of the bids were lower than the debt on the property, that the note received serious bids at all is the latest sign that competition for prime land parcels in downtown Chicago is gaining momentum, brokers said.
So, what happens when UPS gets ahold of those parcels destined for air delivery?
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The exclusive equestrian estate is comprised of 2 parcels, for a grand total of 6.88 acres.
Investors type in what they want to buy or sell, and how much more than the prevailing market price they would be willing to pay or receive for various-sized parcels of shares.
Martin Wileman, from the church, said food parcels contained supplies for several days.
Revenues from UK parcel deliveries were up by 13%, while parcels now account for 47% of revenue across the group.
The transfer of work is due to happen this month, but the CWU said it would lead to more traffic on the roads during the morning rush hour, delays in deliveries reaching Whitstable, and longer distances for customers to travel to collect undelivered parcels.
When X-ray images showed that the packages did not seem to match declared contents, the parcels were passed on to ICE for investigation.
Eisenstein had an account at Zwemmer's in London's Charing Cross Road, from which treasured parcels of art books would arrive for him in Moscow.
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.
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.
Huge parcels of software real estate are up for grabs, and companies are racing to claim theirs.
Gardner was caught after agreeing to collect three parcels from a courier as a favour for an old friend.
Ipswich Families in Need (Find) has given out 556 food parcels so far in 2012, compared with 542 for the whole of last year.
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More than 20 years after Narita opened, diehard farmers refuse to sell their tiny parcels of land, strategically sited across the proposed path for a second runway.
For now, they must also look into the fallout of the subprime affair, not only for the multi-million dollar hedge funds who bought up loan parcels, but also those at the beginning of the whole process - those seeking to buy a home on a low income.
He said people who received the food parcels were "extremely grateful" but some were embarrassed to ask for help.
The free emergency food parcels which the food banks will give out are designed to last for three days.
Last month, for instance, claims that the government had axed the distribution of emergency food parcels forced it hurriedly to find the missing 50m reais.
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