Residents of Silver Springs will have the opportunity to speak Tuesday night on plans to reduce operating hours from eight to six hours a day at the village post office. The hearing is scheduled for 5 p.m at the Village Hall on Main Street. More: continued here

SNP claims Royal Mail privatisation threatens Aberdeenshire serviceSTV LocalThe SNP have warned that moves to privatise Royal Mail could have grievous consequences for rural areas in Scotland, such as Deeside. Local MSP Dennis Robertson said that current plans to introduce an "end-to-end" service posed a real threat, which …and more » …

Former PayPal, eBay hacks strap a rocket onto MongoDBRegisterIf ObjectRocket told you all of the secrets behind its bespoke cloud for running the MongoDB data store super-fast, then it would have two choices: It would either have to kill you or hire you and make you keep the secret. Alternatively, …

In October 2012, 184,954 recipients were removed from the food stamps program after August and September's addition of over 874,000. More: continued here

ChannelAdvisor said on Tuesday that client sales growth on Amazon.com Inc's and eBay Inc's online marketplaces slowed in December. ChannelAdvisor reported that client sales on Amazon.com grew 29.8 percent … More: continued here

Hearing Tues. on Post Office cutbacksWIVBSILVER SPRINGS, NY (WIVB) – The U.S. Postal Service is trimming hours at many facilities, many of them in rural areas of western New York. Residents of Silver Springs will have the opportunity to speak Tuesday night on plans to reduce operating hours …Hearing Tuesday …

NEVADA, MO (WDAF) – Forty-seven-year old Melissa Earll owns dozens of old mint condition comic books, hundreds of rare baseball… More: continued here

USPS to look at Velma Post Office statusDuncan BannerThe United State Postal Service is sending letters and surveys to Velma residents to get feedback about a realignment in the town's post office. This realignment is part of the POST Plan from the U.S. Postal Service, which looks at the workload …

Your Congress hard at work–naming post officesFederal Times (blog)In an online article today, the Courier Express and Postal Observer runs the numbers from 1973 to the present and finds an astounding increase both in the number of post office naming laws, and their share of the total volume of legislation …

ASHBURN, Va. — Pete Carroll says the “field” in FedEx Field is “horrible.” Mike Shanahan doesn’t go that far, but he agrees the grass isn’t always greener at the Washington Redskins stadium. The playing surface was a mess when Seattle Seahawks beat the Redskins on Sunday in the NFC wild …