PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 8, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 8, 2008

Postal Chairman of the Board to Deliver 'The' Chairman of the Board

Frank Sinatra's children will join U-S Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman Alan Kessler May thirteenth to celebrate the return of the "Chairman of the Board" -- Frank Sinatra -- as he is immortalized on one hundred and twenty million forty-two-cent First-Class stamps. The Frank Sinatra commemorative stamp will be available nationwide that day with the younger Sinatras participating in dedication ceremonies taking place in New York City, Las Vegas and Hoboken. The events take place on the eve of the tenth anniversary of Sinatra's death and are free and open to the public.

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Forty-Three Percent of Working Moms Would Take a Pay Cut to Spend More Time With Their Kids, CareerBuilder-dot-com's Annual Mother's Day Survey Finds

As working moms schedule family time on May eleventh, many will be hoping to receive the one present you can't buy at a store -- more quality time with their families. Of the forty-three percent of working moms who said they would take a pay cut if it meant they could spend more time with their kids, thirty-four percent stated they would be willing to give up ten percent or more of their salaries, according to a new CareerBuilder-dot-com survey of eight hundred eighty women, employed full-time, with children under the age of eighteen living at home. For working moms with more than one source of income, just over half of working moms indicated they would leave their job if their spouse or significant other made enough money to support the entire family.

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Do Working Moms Get a Break at the Office?

The latest Adecco U-S-A Workplace Insight survey, conducted in recognition of Mother's Day, found that seventy-one percent of working moms are just as likely as non-parents to work late and respond to e-mails after hours, even though one-third of all workers would be less inclined to ask a working parent to do so. Further, even though they're willing to burn the midnight oil with the rest of their colleagues, nearly half of moms think their companies should do more to help them achieve better work/life balance.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3727719

Nation's Largest Food Drive Helps Millions of Americans in Need

The U-S Postal Service is proud to support the annual National Association of Letter Carriers National Food Drive. Letter carriers in more than ten-thousand communities across America will join forces to help stamp out hunger on Saturday, May tenth. Postal employees in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands will collect non-perishable food items and deliver them to local community food banks, pantries, and shelters across the country. This food drive is the nation's largest annual single-day food drive.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3727492

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