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1. Our extended promo for the supersize and bulilit boxes will only be good until the end of August 2008;
2. We will be charging  $10.00/extra inch for uneven or “buntis” boxes (Example: If your box has an “overflow” of two inches, you will pay an additional $20.00);
3. We will continue to accept odd or irregularly shaped boxes and charges will be computed based on actual measurements done upon pick-up.

Thank you very much for your continued patronage of our services!

“Mahusay na serbisyo ang alay ng Zugbu sa inyo! Dali na, mag-Zugbu kayo!”

Zugbu’s anniversary was held on July 4, 2008 at 5pm, Lone Tree Manor, Niles, IL. It was attended by Zugbu’s agents, friends and loyal customers . Go to the flickr album for the rest of the pictures.

July 15 and July 29

Please have your boxes prepared before the said dates. Call our business phones for pick up: (630) 860-7610 | (773) 206-6441 or email: zugbu@zugbu.com.

Thank you.

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Please be advised that our container from Taiwan didn’t arrive in Manila. An ongoing congestion at the transhipment point coupled with the heavy influx of  U.S. export business caused the delay. This was the container that left Chicago June 11, 2008 and estimated to be in Manila, July 5, 2008.

New estimated arrival date will be on July 11, 2008. Customs release is on July 14, 2008 . Hopefully this will be a week delay only.

The estimated arrival in Manila on July 15 will now be  July 26, 2008. The recent June 2008 flooding in the U.S. Midwest caused rail congestions that slowed down movement of cargo trains to final ports of departure.

Please be guided.

On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army was reorganized in accordance with a Congressional resolution which placed American forces under George Washington’s control. On that New Year’s Day the Continental Army was laying siege to Boston which had been taken over by the British Army. Washington ordered the Grand Union flag hoisted above his base at Prospect Hill. It had 13 alternate red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner (the canton).

Read more of: History of American Flag

Photos: libertyfilmfestival.com / usa-flag-site.org

SAN FERNANDO, Philippines — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to visit the site where the MV Princess of the Stars sank and could meet with relatives of the victims, her press secretary said Tuesday.

The Sulpicio Lines ferry, carrying more than 850 passengers and crew, sank on June 21, at the height of typhoon “Frank” (international codename: Fengshen), off Sibuyan Island in Romblon province, and most of the hundreds killed are still trapped inside the upside down vessel.

Read more: Arroyo to visit site of ferry tragedy–spokesman

BEULAH, N.D. - Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.

When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it.

“I told them if they hit oil, I was going to buy a Cadillac convertible and put those big horns on the front and wear a 10-gallon hat,” Stohler recalled.

He still drives his old pickup and wears a mesh farm cap — but it’s by choice.

Read more of: Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota
(AP Photo/James MacPherson)