Deed stamps: Forgotten fee of home salesThe SunQuestion: I am closing on the sale of my home tomorrow. I just found out that I need to pay $1,500.00 at closing toward something called deed stamps. To add insult to injury, only the seller pays. Is this one-sided fee proper? Answer: …

THE Westfield community in Yeovil looks set to have a new Post Office counter in the area after the Co-op shop recently agreed to install the facility within the shop. More: continued here

By James Haroutunian Question: I am closing on the sale of my home tomorrow. I just found out that I need to pay $1,500. More: continued here

Chicago Reader Show us your . . . United States map of stampsChicago ReaderSo it was a relatively safe bet that a map carefully crafted by his great-aunt in the 1950s, depicting the United States carved out of stamps, was going to head home with him. When Aunt Vivian, whom …

THE Post Office is asking people in New Earswick for their views on a plan to move the village’s branch into a convenience store. More: continued here

Al Jazeera America (blog) EBay chairman weighs in on 'PayPal 14' trialAl Jazeera America (blog)A group affiliated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous pleaded guilty Thursday to accusations they disrupted the payment website PayPal in a December 2010 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The disruption, called "Operation Payback," was …eBay chairman: …

Royal Mail – what is it worth?Investors Chronicle (blog)In its short life as a listed company, Royal Mail (RMG) has already set a wider trading range than many stocks manage in a year. The shares were floated at 330p. They hit a high of 595p in early November, following an …

What People Are Buying on eBay This Holiday SeasonBloomberg6 (Bloomberg) — eBay Marketplaces CEO Devin Wenig discusses how eBay drives marketplace momentum with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by …and more » More: continued here

Food stamps the wrong program to target for cuts — Donald L. Chambers77Square.comOn The PBS Newshour in July, Brooks said "the people who deserve to get (food stamps) are getting (them). That was the basic conclusion I came to. So I think it has expanded. That's true. But that's because …

NewsNet5.com Post office to process mail, deliver packages in northern Ohio next two …NewsNet5.com“Since we are expecting a higher than normal mail volume on Mondays during the holidays, we will be cancelling and processing mail on these two Sundays,” said Melvin J. Anderson, North Ohio District Manager for the U.S. …