Comments on: United States Postal Service Lottery – Potential revenue in excess of $500 Million http://www.postalsanity.com/2010/01/united-states-postal-service-lottery-potential-revenue-in-excess-of-500-million/ (SM)...our blog... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.postalsanity.com/2010/01/united-states-postal-service-lottery-potential-revenue-in-excess-of-500-million/comment-page-1/#comment-316 admin Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:03:46 +0000 http://postalsanity.com/?p=1048#comment-316 <a href="http://postandparcel.info/" rel="nofollow">Post & Parcel</a> reported the following: <blockquote> Russian Post has launched a lottery initiative which could see participants win a new apartment. The lottery - a part of the country’s ‘Affordable Housing’ project - will award up to 15,000 apartments over a five year period, it was announced. Tickets went on sale across Russian post offices this week. Each ticket is valid for four months, increasing participants’ chances of winning an apartment. Apartments are valued at approximately 2.5m rubles, and located in different cities around Russia. Russian Post is the largest lottery distributor in the country. Last year, sales of lottery tickets grew by about 9% compared to 2009 levels. On average, sales of lottery tickets at post offices are growing at 10% annually. </blockquote> Post & Parcel reported the following:

Russian Post has launched a lottery initiative which could see participants win a new apartment.

The lottery – a part of the country’s ‘Affordable Housing’ project – will award up to 15,000 apartments over a five year period, it was announced.

Tickets went on sale across Russian post offices this week.

Each ticket is valid for four months, increasing participants’ chances of winning an apartment.

Apartments are valued at approximately 2.5m rubles, and located in different cities around Russia.

Russian Post is the largest lottery distributor in the country. Last year, sales of lottery tickets grew by about 9% compared to 2009 levels.

On average, sales of lottery tickets at post offices are growing at 10% annually.

]]> By: admin http://www.postalsanity.com/2010/01/united-states-postal-service-lottery-potential-revenue-in-excess-of-500-million/comment-page-1/#comment-45 admin Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:58:38 +0000 http://postalsanity.com/?p=1048#comment-45 Deadtree Edition reported: Would A Lottery Bail Out the Postal Service? Running a national lottery could help the U.S. Postal Service close its multibillion-dollar budget gap, according to a Postal Regulatory Commission official. A Postal Service-run lottery “could offer the potential for substantial profits for the Postal Service and utilize its current retail infrastructure with its 36,000 retail outlets, claimed to be the largest retail network in the world,” Kenneth E. Richardson, a public representative on the PRC’s staff, wrote last month........... Full article <a href="http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com/2010/01/would-lottery-bail-out-postal-service.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> Deadtree Edition reported:

Would A Lottery Bail Out the Postal Service?
Running a national lottery could help the U.S. Postal Service close its multibillion-dollar budget gap, according to a Postal Regulatory Commission official.

A Postal Service-run lottery “could offer the potential for substantial profits for the Postal Service and utilize its current retail infrastructure with its 36,000 retail outlets, claimed to be the largest retail network in the world,” Kenneth E. Richardson, a public representative on the PRC’s staff, wrote last month………..

Full article here

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