AN e-Bay trader based in Pendle began a postal fraud after being devastated by cut-price competition on the internet trading website, magistrates heard. More: continued here

THE Post Office in Basingstoke will open for longer in the run up to Christmas. More: continued here

Phoenix Mayor: 'Brutally difficult' to live on food stampsNBCNews.comPhoenix Mayor: 'Brutally difficult' to live on food stamps. Phoenix Mayor Gary Stanton discusses what it was like to live on food stamp budget for a week, difficulty of eating healthy on welfare and his hope that Congress will reach a budget …

Firm registers tiny Luxembourg office as EU base to avoid VAT More: continued here

Some on food stamps get little to last the monthSun-SentinelIn October, an additional 17,000 South Floridians went on food stamps, adding to the 1.1 million already on the program in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, according to caseload data released by the Florida Department of Children and … More: …

Canada Post and ShirtPunch to host Santa's T-shirt Day and help raise funds …Sacramento BeeThe North Pole Post Office will handle more than one million letters over the next few weeks – each one answered by Santa and delivered by his special postal elves. Two T-shirt designs will be offered …

Santa Claus again put to rest rumors he was not “real” when he and Mrs. Claus dropped by the Pasadena Post Office to visit with a group of young friends from the Children’s University Day Care Wednesd More: continued here

eBay studies our shopping habitsiTWireeBay Australia's second annual Mobile Shopping Study has declared fashion and electronics as the two leading categories for mobile shopping, with each a billion dollar sector in Australia. Approximately $1.1 billion is spent annually on fashion in …and more » More: continued here

A group of armed robbers made off with around 150,000 euros after holding up a post office in the Peloponnesian prefecture of Ilia early on Monday. More: continued here

On the road with eBay Now, an experimental one-hour delivery service that eBay hopes will make it the company shoppers think of first as the place to get anything, anytime, anywhere. More: continued here