The Dundee post office and two businesses were burglarized Tuesday morning. More: continued here

WGRZ-TV Protesters camp out to fight sale of main post officeDaily CalifornianApproximately 20 to 30 protesters have been camping overnight since Saturday to fight the sale of the historic 99-year-old Berkeley post office on Allston Way in Downtown Berkeley. Even though the U.S. Postal Service remains firm on its final …

Nwlaborpress Downtown Post Office staff locked out of vaultAmarillo.comThe U.S. Postal Service needed a safecracker Tuesday. Employees arrived to work to find the vault at the Downtown Post Office, 505 S.E. Ninth Ave., wouldn't open. “The money, the stamp stock — everything for retail (sales) is in the vault,” spokesman …

How Many People Receive Food Stamps In OaklandPatch.comThat month, the state distributed $643 million in food stamp benefits to 1.89 million households. Contra Costa County Supervisor Karen Mitchoff says food stamps are a vital benefit that should be one of the last government programs to be cut. She said …and …

How Many People Receive Food Stamps In El CerritoPatch.comIn El Cerrito, 405 people were listed as being food stamp beneficiaries as of June 30, according to the latest figures from the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department. That's slightly less than 2 percent of El Cerrito's 24,000 … …

EcommerceBytes (blog) eBay Fall Seller Release Holds Little SurpriseEcommerceBytes (blog)eBay is announcing its Fall Seller Release today (July 30, 2013), and EcommerceBytes readers have had a week to digest the changes before the announcement thanks to the Newsflash newsletter publishing details of the Fall Release on July 23rd.eBay, DDLS launch …

eBay Inc (EBAY): eBay's'Weak' Guidance Doesn't Change The Phenomenal …Seeking AlphaE-commerce giant and one of our Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio holdings eBay (EBAY) announced solid second-quarter results. Revenue jumped 14% year-over-year to $3.9 billion, roughly in-line with consensus expectations. Earnings were also in-line with … More: continued here

New system causes delays in food stampsBurlington Times NewsSeveral hundred food stamp clients in Alamance County have experienced weekly delays in receiving their benefits since a new delivery system was implemented earlier this year. The Alamance County Department of Social Services began using NC FAST … More: continued here

U.S. News & World Report House Plan on Food Stamps Would Cut 5 Million From ProgramNew York TimesWASHINGTON — Nearly half a million people who receive food stamps but still do not get enough to eat would lose their eligibility for the program under proposed cuts that are expected to …

A new report finds that a proposal would increase poverty and illness, resulting in billions of dollars in federal and state health care costs. More: continued here