Royal Mail goes to Specsavers for eye examsFleet DirectoryAshleigh Fairhurst, world class mail people development manager, says: “Royal Mail takes the health and well-being of all our colleagues very seriously. Many of our colleagues work in active, non-desk-based roles – and we wanted to ensure they have …and more » More: continued …

Belleville News Democrat Time to Take a Bite Out of Food Stamps?Valley NewsFILE – In this March 18, 1932, file photo workman sort individual 25-pound packages of unperishable food for needy families in New York City, where the The Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee established the central depot and share-a-meal drive …Congress …

Politicians lobby to keep Fall River's Flint post office openFall River Herald NewsLocal politicians are taking no chances with the post office in the Flint. They are lobbying to keep the branch open, even though there has been no announcement it might close. Rep. William Keating, Rep. Joseph Kennedy and …

The United States Post Office is further planning to downsize its operations in Berks County. The USPS wants to sell its main post office at 59 N. 5th St. in center city and its carrier annex at 1910 N. 5th St., according to a letter from Richard Hancock, a USPS …

Magnus Walker explains why he pulled his 911 from eBayAutoWeekIf you spend as much time as we do on eBay, relentlessly trolling for cool cars (it's part of the job, we swear), you may have stumbled across a recent listing for a 1965 911 belonging to Magnus Walker. There's no …

House Republican leaders are to present a bill that would cut the food stamps program by $40 billion over 10 years, a move opposed by Democrats. Republicans say the program, whose enrollment soared after the 2008-09 recession, is unbearably expensive at $78 billion a year. More: continued here

Advocates warn of cuts to food stamp programHunterdon County Democrat – NJ.comThey group noted that the number of New Jerseyeans on food stamps swelled during the recession, growing from 413,000 residents in 2007 to 813,000 residents this year. The program is one of the country's real effective safety nets for …

Daily Californian Activists protest sale of Berkeley's first post officeDaily CalifornianWhere Milvia Street crosses Allston Way, several bold signs and worn REI tents indicate a group of protesters who have been camping out in front of Berkeley's first post office since Saturday night to save the institution from being sold. …

Leading backbencher says to call vote without compromising would be kamikaze move Gordon Brown will be forced to back down over plans for the partial privatisation of the Royal Mail, a Labour MP claimed today. John Grogan, one of the backbenchers leading the campaign against the government's proposal to sell …

“We didn't negotiate at all with Federal Express on the price,” property owner Bill Kearns said Monday. More: continued here