after a 21 6 % increase in convenience store industry card fees in 2010 they jumped 23 3 % in 2011 to a record $ 11 billion and hit $ 11 2 billion in 2012 total credit and debit card fees surpassed overall c store industry profits for the sixth consecutive year
The first known black female postmaster was Minnie Cox, appointed postmaster of Indianola (pop. 10,863) in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison.
In December 1902, Martha Washington was on the first stamp issued to honor a woman. The 8-cent stamp pictures her at the age of 65. Martha Dandridge was born in 1731 on Chestnut Grove Plantation in Virginia.