With more than 1 in 5 citizens receiving assistance, it has more people on the program than the populations of Boston or Seattle. More: continued here

Postal Workers to Get Shares in Private Royal MailABC NewsThe British government will lay out plans to privatize the Royal Mail in a 3 billion pounds ($4.5 billion) share offering that will see tens of thousands of workers get a stake in the company. Business minister Michael Fallon told the …

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By Neil Maidment and William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will list a majority stake in the Royal Mail postal service on the stock market in the next nine months, promising free shares for workers fiercely opposed to the country’s biggest privatisation in around 20 years. Analysts expect the initial …

Royal Mail have unveiled a brand new collection of stamps featuring 10 different butterfly species from the UK. More: continued here

Victoria Advocate Unused space, high rental rates plague Main Street post officeVictoria AdvocateThe U.S. Postal Service is considering closing the Victoria Main Post Office at Main and Church streets. Last month, postal officials sent out notification of their intent to conduct a discontinuance feasibility study of the Victoria Main Post …

The Royal Mail sell-off plan is daylight robbery of our postal serviceThe GuardianThis wretched government is now selling off Royal Mail, with the aid of a syndicate of banks headed by those well-known guarantors of the public interest, Goldman Sachs and UBS. The financiers will take home around £30m; over …

Business Secretary Vince Cable has confirmed the British government will sell Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange. More: continued here