Royal Mail float helps deliver Hargreaves liftCITY A.M.FUND platform Hargreaves Lansdown yesterday said strong demand from retail investors for shares in Royal Mail helped deliver a rise in revenues and new business. The company, which operates as an online investment supermarket where DIY investors … More: continued here

Man tries to sell his super on eBayNEWS.com.auSource: Supplied. AN ADELAIDE man has posted a peculiar listing on eBay Australia, auctioning off his future superannuation payout with a lucrative 'double your money' offer. Daniel King, who uses the eBay username rachybabe302013, lists his product as … More: continued here

Hargreaves toasts Royal Mail boostThe CourierFund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown said the Royal Mail float helped it attract a record number of new investors as Britons scrambled to take part in the UK's biggest state sell-off for decades. The Bristol-based group thanked the flotation for a … More: continued here

Royal Mail pay deal securedCITY A.M.AN OVERWHELMING majority of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have agreed to the Royal Mail's new industrial strategy, including a deal on pay. On a 57 per cent turnout, 94.5 per cent of members backed the agreement, which will … More: continued here

Adelaide man Daniel King auctions off his future superannuation payout on eBayNEWS.com.auThis follows a series of equally bizarre eBay listings including Scarlett Johansson's used tissue, Niall from One Direction's half eaten Vegemite toast, Ian Usher's life and belongings, Big Brother winner Tim Dormer's wisdom teeth, the identity of … More: …

The Wandsworth Town Post Office branch has closed, with a permanent site not yet found. Wandsworth Crown Post Office, in Arndale Walk, Wandsworth, will run from two temporary sites from next Monday, July 29. More: continued here

Police arrest three after package of pot found at post officeThe TennesseanDetectives had been tipped to the package they believed had contraband in it and questioned 24-year-old Terrell Jones Mills moments after he picked it up at the U.S. Post Office at Dickerson Pike. Mills told police he wasn't sure …

Chicagomag.com The Benefits of Food Stamps Go Far Beyond NutritionChicagomag.comHoynes and Schanzenbach cleverly used a natural experiment to investigate the effects of food stamps: the slow, decade-plus-long rollout of the food-stamp program in the 1960s and 1970s, the main variable being “the share of time between conception and … More: continued …

KERO-TV 23 Senate passes Farm Bill, sends to Obama, helps food stamps, crop insuranceKERO-TV 23WASHINGTON – 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 farmers and the maple …

Gulf Times Royal Mail staff win deal on jobs, pensionsGulf TimesRoyal 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 ballot supported the … …