After decades at post office, Bethesda mural finds a new homeGazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online(From left) John Salhus and Ewa Devereux of Parma Conservation in Chicago use archival glue made from a 700-year-old recipe to mount a 1929 mural by Robert F. Gates, titled “Montgomery County Farm Women's Market,” on …

Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) on Monday came to a 'landmark' agreement which included a three-year pay offer covering around 139,000 employees. More: continued here

Gizmodo UK Royal Mail Posties Won't Deliver by Bike After 2014Gizmodo UKThe chunky red Pashley Mailstar bicycle used by posties in some of the flatter parts of the country are about to disappear, with the Royal Mail set to remove the remaining 3,000 or so still in use around the …

Daily Mail Where posting letters takes first class effort: Royal Mail mystery as official …Daily MailAnother passing motorist added: 'I couldn't believe it when I first saw it. 'I had to go back and check and it is a realistic letter box stuck on to the concrete structure somehow. 'Unless …

GoLocalProv Cuts To Food Stamps Taking New Form, Eliminating Heating Subsidies LoopholeFiredoglakeWhile Congress may be interested in blowing over $600 billion to subsidize defense contractors in fighting the non-existent Soviet Union, the food stamp program is facing the knife. Now you might note that the Pentagon can't account for trillions …

The women of Bethesda are back where they belong. For more than 70 years, a mural depicting the Montgomery County Farm Women’s Cooperative Market hung above the customer service desk at the post office on Wisconsin Avenue. More: continued here

Fox Baltimore How late can you mail holiday cards, packages? Post office deadlines, tips for …Plain DealerIt's a busy time for customers but also for the post office, which has to ship boxes, tubes, containers and other packages all over the country. You think people just send toys? David Van …

WH Holiday Cards Selling for $200 on eBayThe Weekly Standard (blog)The White House has not even officially introduced the 2013 White House Holiday Card yet and already Monday night copies were listed for sale on eBay for as much as $200. The card is quite elaborate based on the standards …

The Guardian Royal Mail workers win pay increase of 9% over three yearsThe GuardianRoyal Mail staff will get a pay increase of more than 9% over three years after the company and its union announced what they said was a groundbreaking legal agreement on industrial relations at the newly privatised …

WISH Food stamps distribution dates change in JanuaryFort Wayne Journal GazetteINDIANAPOLIS – Almost a million Hoosiers receiving food stamps will see the date they receive benefits shift in January under a new law. The amount of the benefits will not change. The monthly average for a household of two is …