Happy holidays from The Green Sheet

To take a little time to celebrate the season, The Green Sheet Inc. will close Friday afternoon, Dec. 21, and reopen Wednesday morning, Dec. 26. We wish all of our loyal readers warm and fulfilling days ahead. We also want to remind you that even though our physical doors will be closed for a short time, our website is always up and running, so you can make use of our extensive payments industry archives whenever you like.

And speaking about our website, when it comes to maintaining a web presence, traffic is everything. So imagine how proud we were to learn that among the millions of websites monitored by web analytics firm Alexa, our website ranks 54,053 in the United States and 197,496 worldwide.

Named after Egypt's ancient Library of Alexandria, Alexa has been "crawling" the web since 1996. It has created a huge database covering millions of websites, including each site's traffic statistics, visitor demographics and information about other sites visitors frequent.

Owned by Amazon Inc., Alexa relies on a community of millions of participating Internet users. Anybody can be part of the Alexa community. Simply by adding the Alexa toolbar to your browser you, too, can be a source of valuable information about the web in general (what gets used, what does not) and specific websites. Just type the URL of any website in the Alexa search box, and watch the data flow.

We hope you visit us again soon at www.greensheet.com .

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