Hargreaves Lansdown client numbers boosted by Royal Mail floatProactive Investors UKPrivate client stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL.) signed up 77,000 new accounts in the second half of last year, helped in no small part by the high profile stock market float of Royal Mail (LON:RMG). Hargreaves said it recruited more clients …

Cardiff and Newport have been named the most romantic places in Wales. Royal Mail has analysed its mail volumes and found people living in the cities sent the largest percentage increase in Valentine’s Day cards and letters, as well as other mail in Wales last year. More: continued here

KERO-TV 23 Congress Passes Farm Bill, Cuts Food Stamps By $8.7 BillionNews OneThe Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to slash food stamps for 850,000 households across the nation, resulting in an average $90 per month loss in benefits per family, reports MSNBC.com. The newly passed Farm Bill, which includes an …

UK's recently privatised delivery service said the pay and pensions deal won't change the financial outlook More: continued here

Post Office Banking Could Be the Start of Something BigHuffington PostIt seems like an idea whose time has come. With one in four American households partially or entirely excluded from the current banking system, and with the U.S. Post Office in search of additional revenue, why not use the postal …

The number of customers at Britain's largest investment shop grew from 507,000 to 584,000 in just six months More: continued here

The Guardian Royal Mail staff win 'groundbreaking' deal on jobs, pensions and practicesThe GuardianRoyal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a long-term deal on post-privatisation terms and conditions hammered out between their union and the company. More than nine in 10 workers who voted in the CWU union's …

Post office gets a love letterBeaver Dam Daily CitizenTo me the mail service and post office represents the world being connected before it went wireless, paperless, pot-bellied-stove-less. In truth, the post office of my youth had no pot bellied stove, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have. You know … …

Rare stamps and coins are increasingly being included in self-managed super funds and this has become a growing opportunity for philatelic dealers and auction houses. More: continued here

Minneapolis Star Tribune Senate sends farm bill to Obama, bill would cut food stamps, maintain farm …Minneapolis Star TribuneWASHINGTON — The sweeping farm bill that Congress sent to President Obama Tuesday has something for almost everyone, from the nation's 47 million food stamp recipients to Southern peanut growers, Midwest corn …