Grants double value of food stamps at Interior marketsFairbanks Daily News-MinerFAIRBANKS — Food stamps will have double their value at the Downtown Market and various school farm stands this summer, thanks to several state grants that will boost purchasing power at those venues. A customer using food stamps— formally known …

News roundup–Morrisons, Ocado, Royal Mail, moreCatalogue e-businessThe step towards Royal Mail's privatisation has moved a step close with the postal carrier's appointment of Equiniti to act as its registrar and administrator on the establishment of an employee share scheme. Next's property director Andrew Varley is …and more » More: continued here

The Guardian The Royal Mail is a good reason to change the borrowing rulesLeft Foot ForwardRoyal Mail The effect in the UK has been to squeeze out borrowing by public corporations that would be entirely justified by their business plans. One casualty has been council housing but attention is now …

York, PA – There will be a day in mid-summer when the last letter is mailed inside the pillared lobby of the York City Post Office at 200 S. George St. Then, that lobby will go dark. More: continued here

House panel cuts food stampsAlexandria Town TalkThe legislation would achieve the cuts partly by eliminating an eligibility category that mandates automatic food stamp benefits when people sign up for certain other programs. It would also save dollars by targeting states that give people who don't … More: continued here

Bomb Squad call to investigate suspicious package at Niles Post officeABC 57 NewsNILES, Mich. — Nile Police were called to the Nile Post office just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night to investigate a suspicious package. Police say that a woman who came to drop off mail found a box sitting …

I believe the time has come to close the Piscataway Post Office on Skiles Avenue. More: continued here

Newsday House, Senate plan cuts to food stamps in Farm BillKearney HubWASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate Agriculture Committees have laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink the food aid and alter the way people …

Sale of downtown Annapolis post office building will end era … eventuallyBaltimore SunSince 1901, Annapolis residents and downtown workers have been dropping off letters and buying stamps at the brick Georgian Revival-style post office on Church Circle. But not for much longer. A vote by the state's Board of Public …

Newsday Post Office food drive a much appreciated successThe Daily NewsHayman said Wednesday he'd already stopped by the Bogalusa Post Office to thank the letter carriers who picked up the donated food as they delivered mail Saturday. He also expressed his appreciation of people from throughout the community who …Girls …