*Official Rules. No Purchase Necessary To Enter Or Win. PIN-Based & International Transactions Not Eligible For Automatic Entry. A Purchase Will Not Increase Your Odds of Winning. Void in Alaska, Hawaii & Where Prohibited.

Sweepstakes open to individuals who are legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States including the District of Columbia, 18 years of age or older prior to 10/1/09, except employees & their immediate families (spouses, parents, children, & siblings & their respective spouses) & those living in the same household of each of MasterCard International Incorporated ("Sponsor"), MasterCard customer financial institutions, Staples the Office Superstore, LLC, Project Support Team, Inc. ("P/S/T"), & each of their respective parent companies, affiliates, distributors, subsidiaries, retailers, & advertising/promotion agencies (collectively, "Released Parties"). This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, & local laws & regulations. Void in Alaska, Hawaii & where prohibited. How to Enter: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:01AM Central Time ("CT") on 10/1/09 & ends at 11:59:59PM CT on 11/30/09 ("Promotion Period"). 1) Automatically receive (1) Sweepstakes entry for each purchase made using both your Staples Rewards card & MasterCard card at Staples store locations in the U.S., online at www.staples.com and/or through the Staples catalog via phone at 1-800-333-3330 (collectively "qualifying purchase"). Both Staples Rewards card & MasterCard card must be used to receive automatic entry. For Staples Rewards membership details, visit www.StaplesRewards.com or see Staples store associate. Catalog orders must be processed during the Promotion Period. Account adjustment transactions/returns & PIN-based & international transactions are not considered eligible transactions for Sweepstakes entry. Entries from unauthorized card use or made with lost, stolen, or fraudulent MasterCard cards are void. Only purchases made with a MasterCard card that is in good standing (both at time of entry & winner selection) & issued by a MasterCard customer financial institution in the U.S. to an identifiable end user & that are processed & submitted through Staples the Office Superstore, LLC's U.S. transaction processing system during the Promotion Period are eligible for automatic entry; or 2) To enter the Sweepstakes without purchase & receive (1) entry, hand print your name, complete mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, & the words "MasterCard & Staples Stock Your Office Sweepstakes" on a plain 3"x 5" piece of paper & mail it in a sealed, stamped & hand printed #10 envelope to: MasterCard & Staples Stock Your Office Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 17090, Bridgeport, CT 06673-7090. Enter as often as you wish by mail, but each entry must be mailed separately & received by 12/7/09. No photocopied, computer generated facsimiles, mechanically reproduced, or mass entries permitted. Your use of your MasterCard card to make a purchase and/or your submission of a 3"x 5" mail-in entry constitutes your consent to participate in this Sweepstakes & your consent for Sponsor to obtain, use, & transfer your name, address & other information for the purpose of administering this Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not responsible for lost, incomplete, illegible, late, misdirected, stolen, postage-due, or mutilated entries or mail; garbled, incomplete or inaccurate catalog orders by phone; failure to process catalog orders; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in transmission, third-party transaction classification, transaction and/or catalog processing, or communication; technical or mechanical malfunctions; failures or malfunctions of phones, phone lines, or telephone systems; errors in these Official Rules, in any Sweepstakes-related advertisements or other materials; human-processing error; failures of electronic equipment, computer hardware or software; or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by equipment, programming used in this Sweepstakes, human error, or otherwise. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to void any & all entries of an entrant who Sponsor believes has attempted to tamper with or impair the administration, security, fairness, or proper play of this Sweepstakes. Prizes: (3) Grand Prizes: A year's worth of office supplies, awarded in the form of a $3,000 Staples Gift Card toward the purchase of products at any Staples U.S. retail store location (Approximate Retail Value "ARV"=$3,000). (20) First Prizes: $100 MasterCard Gift Card (ARV=$100). (100) Second Prizes: Coupon for HERSHEY'S® Miniatures, redeemable at any Staples U.S. retail store location (ARV=$12). MasterCard Gift Card, Staples Gift Card, & Coupon restrictions may apply. For terms and conditions of the Staples® gift card, go to Staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/giftcards. Total ARV of all prizes=$12,200. Federal, state, & local taxes & all other expenses not specified herein are winners' sole responsibility. Winner Selection: Winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about 12/28/09 from among all eligible entries received by P/S/T, an independent judging organization whose decisions will be final & binding in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Winners will be contacted by P/S/T by telephone and/or mail. In the event that a potential winner is selected via a MasterCard card transaction, prize will be awarded to the primary account holder (as determined by the MasterCard customer financial institution's account records & subject to said financial institution's timely identification of the account holder) named on the account accessed by the MasterCard card used to make the entry &, in the event that a corporate MasterCard card winning account is selected, prize will be awarded to the individual named on the MasterCard card that is used to transact the winning entry (as determined by the MasterCard customer financial institution's account records & subject to said financial institution's timely identification of the individual named on the applicable MasterCard card). If the awarding of a prize is in conflict with a business cardholder's corporate written policy, prize will be forfeited & an alternate winner may be selected. Odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible entries received. Limit (1) prize per person, immediate family, or household. Miscellaneous: No transfer, assignment, cash redemption or substitution of a prize except by Sponsor at its sole discretion due to prize unavailability or causes otherwise determined solely by Sponsor, & then for a prize (or applicable portion thereof) of equal or greater value. Grand Prize winners will be required to execute & return a notarized Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release & (where legal) Publicity Release within (3) days of issuance of notification. Non-compliance with any of the foregoing may result in disqualification & awarding of prize to an alternate winner as determined by Sponsor. If any prize notification letter or prize is returned as undeliverable, winner will be disqualified & an alternate winner may be selected. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules & agree that: 1) Released Parties & their designees & assigns shall have the right & permission to use (unless prohibited by law) their name, voice, city/state of residence, biographical information, photograph, and/or likeness for advertising and/or trade and/or any other purpose in any media or format, online or offline, now or hereafter known without further compensation, permission, or notification; & 2) Released Parties & their designees & assigns & all of their respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders, representatives & agents shall have no liability & will be indemnified & held harmless for any liability, loss, injury or death to entrant or any other person, including, without limitation, damage to personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize or participation in this Sweepstakes. Winners List: For the winners' names, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by 1/25/10 to: MasterCard & Staples Stock Your Office Sweepstakes Winners, P.O. Box 13106, Bridgeport, CT 06673-3106. ©2009 MasterCard. All Rights Reserved.

Sponsor: MasterCard International Incorporated, 2000 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577
Promoter: Project Support Team, Inc., 6 Berkshire Blvd., Bethel, CT 06801/www.ProjectSupportTeam.com

If you would like to be removed from future sweepstakes mailing lists, please write to P.O. Box 9254, Framingham, MA 01702-9254, or via email at staplesrewards@staples.com. Please include your full name, customer number, address, & telephone number. It may take up to 60 days to process your request.

CONSUMER DISCLOSURE: NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. You have not yet won. PIN-based & international transactions ineligible. Void in Alaska, Hawaii, & where prohibited. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. (3) Grand Prizes valued at $3,000 each. (20) First Prizes valued at $100 each. (100) Second Prizes valued at $12 each. Total ARV of all prizes=$12,200. Starts 10/1/09. Ends 11/30/09. See Official Rules for prize restrictions. Sponsored by MasterCard International Incorporated, 2000 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY 10577-2509.

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