My wife and I got £750 Royal Mail shares each. How do we go about selling them without incurring high fees? Am I correct in assuming any profit is free of tax? More: continued here

Comment: It seems bad grammar, not a glitch, caused investors to receive share certificates when they wanted an electronic holding         More: continued here

UK Post Office launches PR tender worth up to £3mPRWeekLONDON: The UK's Post Office has issued a brief for corporate and crisis PR that could be worth up to £3 million, or about $4.8 million, in the wake of the privatization of Royal Mail. The account is set to run …

eBay Wears Down Seller with Chronic Over-Billing on Store InvoiceEcommerceBytes (blog)I have little doubt that eBay execs view this as a cheap and effective way to pad their bottom-line. They are COUNTING on sellers not noticing the odd 15-cents added to the invoice. And if noticed, they are COUNTING on …

Lexington Herald Leader Food stamp cuts affect struggling Kentucky residentsLexington Herald LeaderHoward is among the 47 million people who are affected by government cuts to the SNAP, which is said to be the largest wholesale cut in the program since Congress passed the first Food Stamps Act in 1964. The …

Exeter Express and Echo Exeter postie Rachel to appear in Royal Mail Christmas TV advertExeter Express and EchoRachel Boyce, 46, who is based at Exeter's Royal Mail delivery office, is starring in the advert called 'We Love Parcels' which celebrates the 1 billion parcels its postal workers deliver a year. …

Mailbox broken into at Townville Post OfficeAnderson Independent MailTOWNVILLE — The mail dropbox outside the Townville Post Office was broken into sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, according to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. An as yet unidentified person or people broke the latch and door on the large, …Postmaster: Townville …

A diet fueled by food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them …Washington PostFor almost a decade, Blanca had supported her five children by stretching $430 in monthly food stamp benefits, adding lard to thicken her refried beans and buying instant soup by the case at a nearby …

Esquire (blog) Cut In Food Stamps Forces Hard Choices on PoorHuffington PostCHARLESTON, S.C. — For many, a $10 or $20 cut in the monthly food budget would be absorbed with little notice. But for millions of poor Americans who rely on food stamps, reductions that began this month present awful …

Stow Sentry Former Darrowville Post Office needs new homeStow SentryHudson — A remnant of history may be gone forever if a new home can't be found for what the owner believes at one time was a post office, which has also been used as a book store and more recently …