The agency, which announced an end to Saturday mail service this week, was helped by holiday shipping and election mailings, but its financial woes continued. More: continued here

The U.S. Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery this summer doesn’t bother some area residents, but Mitzi Barnhart doesn’t like the decision. More: continued here

Weekend Reading: Neil Barofsky, the Post Office and the Impact of the SequesterBarron’s (blog)Fun fades at investing clubs – ”It used to be that if you went by the numbers, you could pick a pretty good stock, but that isn't as true anymore.” (WSJ). Who decided US megabanks are too …

From an editorial published Thursday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: More: continued here

Bloomberg Post Office Slows Rate of Losses for QuarterNew York TimesThe post office would stop delivering or picking up mail on Saturdays, ending a practice that goes back to the 1890s. Packages would continue to be delivered Monday through Saturday. The Postal Service said the change could result in an …

The post office has been part of America since its earliest founding. More: continued here

Football heroes feature on new stamps from Royal MailWalesOnlineTHE Royal Mail is issuing a set of stamps featuring some of the UK's biggest soccer heroes to mark the 150th anniversary of Association Football rules being established. The first class stamps, Football Heroes, show the stars in their home country's … …

Friday, US Postal Service District Office in Greensboro was given a petition to keep the post office inside Four Seasons Mall open. More: continued here

Duluth police say drug trafficking ring involved trading food stamps for cocaineDuluth News TribuneDuring the investigation, task force investigators identified a trend in the narcotics trafficking — trading so-called food stamp or EBT/SNAP cards in exchange for crack cocaine. “These trades were made at rates equal to approximately 50 percent …

Livemint There's a blurring of offline and online: eBay's LeeLivemintMumbai: Jay Lee , senior vice-president and managing director of eBay Inc.'s Asia Pacific business, believes a revolution is imminent in the way Indians communicate and compute, led by tablets below $100 and Internet-enabled phones that cost less than …and more » …