We have all experienced those times when you go on vacation only to return to an inbox that resembles a wasteland of outdated offers, now-irrelevant messages, and other cyber waste.

DailyCandy has a pretty cool feature to help avoid this mess altogether. They offer a feature where subscribers can pause their email subscriptions for a given duration of time. This is kind of like putting your postal mail delivery on hold while you are on vacation or suspending newspaper delivery (for those who still get a newspaper delivered!). Of course, this technology lends itself better to those senders who email daily, just like the USPS or newspaper companies.

This feature looks to be a win-win because:

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Travel tends to peak during the holiday season and late winter months.  But given the state of our economy and financial changes that have occured over the last year, how have American’s travel habits shifted? A review from the Experian Simmons Summer 2009 and Summer 2008 full-year National Consumer Studies shows that domestic vacation travel is slightly down in comparison to years past. Key trends and statistics include:

• Over the past year, all modes of transportation, except for buses, have seen a decrease in the percentage of vacationing Americans using them for travel. This likely due to the fact that fewer Americans are vacationing away from home.

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