Kent Online Herne Bay up for sale… on eBayKent OnlineIf you have £1 spare, Herne Bay could be yours after the town was put up for sale on eBay. Bids are being invited for the auction due to close at just before 9pm tonight. Sadly, the 99p starting price has …

Royal Mail drafts in City PR experts for privatisation processPRWeek UKRoyal Mail's incumbent agency Brunswick has been retained as its day-to-day corporate PR adviser and will work alongside Tulchan through the privatisation process. Brunswick is understood to have pitched for the transaction-specific financial PR brief …Post Office calls in PR …

South Florida reacts to Post Office plans to end Saturday mail deliverySun-SentinelThe U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery starting this summer to save about $2 billion a year and cut its losses now estimated at about $16 billion yearly. The government agency would still deliver packages on …

The U.S. Postal Service's announcement that it plans to end Saturday mail deliveries apparently had little effect on shares of private-sector competitors FedEx and UPS.In Wednesday afternoon trading, shares … More: continued here

WBUR US Post Office To End Saturday Letter DeliveryWBURUS Post Office To End Saturday Letter Delivery. By The Associated Press. File photo of U.S. Letter Carrier Gerald Tannehill delivering mail in Springfield, Ill. (AP/Seth Perlman). The head of the letter carriers union says it's a “disastrous idea …and more » More: …

Magazines React To Post Office Cutbacks: 'The Friday Evening Post'?New York Times (blog)The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays. Magazine …

You Can't Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together AgainEsquire (blog)Ten months ago, when I began reporting what would become "Do We Really Want To Live Without the Post Office?, nearly everyone I spoke with brought up cutting Saturday service because it's such an easy target — who wants bills over the …

The Post office is defying Congress by halting Saturday mail. But why?Washington Post (blog)The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it would stop delivering mail on Saturdays in an effort to save $2 billion per year and shore up its finances. Politically speaking, this is a bold move. In the …

Beijing, Feb. 6 — Chinese television and radio channels have been ordered to cut down on advertisements that encourage exchanging expensive gifts like luxury watches, rare stamps and gold coins as they promote "bad ethos." This is the latest instance of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) new dispensation's efforts …

DHEC chief: Restrict food stamps, curb obesityWCNCCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's public health chief says further restricting what people can buy with food stamps might be a way to cut down on the state's obesity problem. Department of Health and Environmental Control director Catherine …and more » More: continued here