Haaretz Post office strike settled – for nowHaaretzThe agreement signed Friday provides that all 7,000 postal employees will have their salaries cut by 5% through the end of the year as a loan to the postal company. The step is expected to temporarily spare the post office payment of more …

Lazard advised on Royal Mail shares then profited by £8m in flotationHITCThe investment bank that advised the government not to increase the price of Royal Mail shares, despite widespread fears they were hugely undervalued, made a profit of more than £8m by immediately selling the company's stock in the wake …

eBay Find of the Day: Mk1 Ford GT40 with interesting historyAutoblog (blog)You might expect a rare Ford GT40 to cross the block at some sort of prestigious auto auction from RM or Gooding, not show up on eBay for over $2 million. However, that's exactly what we have here. The …

The state of America: one in 5 on food stamps in 5 statesWPTVNationally, about 15% of Americans are on food stamps. And as the economy has improved, nationwide use of the safety-net program for the most vulnerable has edged down to 46.5 million in January, about 1.2 million fewer than …

eBay Falls: Buying Opportunity or Time to Sell?Motley FooleBay (NASDAQ: EBAY ) has fallen by more than 10% over the last two months, and the stock has been basically flat since the beginning of 2013. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) is outgrowing eBay in e-commerce, but PayPal is still generating tremendous …and …

Belfast Telegraph Business Secretary Vince Cable: Grilled over the sell-off of Royal MailBelfast TelegraphPressure on the Government over the botched Royal Mail sell-off intensified yesterday as more hedge funds were unmasked as key investors in the flotation and the chairman of a committee of MPs condemned the “corporate masonic lodge” …

Slate Magazine (blog) Marketer Who Defrauded eBay Gets 5 Years in Federal PrisonSlate Magazine (blog)eBay initially alleged that Hogan had rigged eBay's system so that it falsely credited him for sales he did not generate. He did this by seeding unknowing users with hundreds of thousands of bits of tracking …

CUSTOMERS will benefit from longer opening hours and shorter queues at the newly-refurbished Starbeck Post Office in Harrogate High Street. More: continued here

Climax responds to Post Office reopening with new hoursPost SearchlightAt the community meeting in Climax May 1, where a nice crowd braved the wet weather to attend, Pierle said he was there to get the community's input and to take questions about the reopening of the Post Office and not …

Oregon one of five states with 19 percent of people on food stampsKPTV.comNearly one in five people are on food stamps in five states, a stark reminder that the Great Recession continues to be a drag on the nation's poorest. In Mississippi, Oregon, Tennessee, New Mexico and Louisiana, food stamp …