The tradition ended under Richard Nixon in 1971, when the Post Office department was removed from the Cabinet and made a semi-independent agency, the U.S. Postal Service.

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When the government decided to replace the Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service in 1971, it exchanged a taxpayer-dependent bureaucracy with a government-owned business that was supposed to rely on the sale of postage, mail products, and services for revenue.

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Above the central portrait, each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the U.S. Post Office Department identified as the "Lamp of Knowledge" but that I thought of as Aladdin's lamp because of the boy in the Arabian Nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for.

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Taxpayers who reported and paid tax on all their taxable income but did not file FBARs, should not participate in the OVDI but should merely file the delinquent FBARs with the Department of Treasury, Post Office Box 32621, Detroit, MI 48232-0621 (and attach a statement explaining why the reports are filed late).

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They include reducing mail delivery by the U.S. Post Office to five days a week, giving the Treasury Department the authority to rethink the way pennies and nickels are coined to save costs and new restraints on military veteran benefits.

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In a statement issued in response to the NCC's comments, the Department for Work and Pensions said it has worked together very closely with the banks and Post Office on the changes.

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