UK Mail profits up 25%, with customers won from Royal MailPost and ParcelUK Mail Group appears to have benefited greatly from Royal Mail's price increases this year in boosting its mail revenues and taking customers from the universal service provider. Royal Mail hiked business mail rates by 11% and retail …

New technologies key to Postal Service revitalizationFederalNewsRadio.comThe agency's mobile app allows customers to find the closest post office, order supplies and submit requests for their mail to be held while they're out of town. And, Burgoyne said, the agency is working to deploy tablets to post office clerks so they …

Congress undermined the financial stability of the Postal Service six years ago, and it can easily repair the damage. More: continued here

Artists Restore Depression-Era Image In Paoli Post Office LobbyWBIW.comRoger Moon, of the Times-Mail reports, visitors to the post office can see not only a more vibrant image on the lobby's wall, but, throughout this month, can also see an art exhibit called "Local Treasure: Indiana's Post Office Murals." The exhibit …

Examiner.com Harry Styles bought his mom a car she sold on eBayExaminer.com20, reports say Harry Styles' name was used as a marketing tool for his mom when she recently sold the car he bought her via eBay. Indeed, this parent of the famous teen told everyone who looked at the …

Food stamps ruling appealedSioux Falls Argus LeaderThe newspaper filed suit last year alleging that USDA violated the Freedom of Information Act when it refused to release several years of payments that grocers, big-box retailers, gas stations and others receive for accepting food stamp purchases. The … More: continued here

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — FedEx Corp. has launched its annual operation to deliver fresh-cut Christmas trees to U.S. military personnel and families. More: continued here

Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he and a Twitter follower will try living on food stamps for at least a week. More: continued here

Royal Mail in centre U-turnThis is StaffordshireUNION leaders have welcomed a Royal Mail U-turn to keep its customer service centre open and save around 400 jobs. The Festival Park centre was earmarked for closure in 2010 but staff have now been told those plans have been dropped. See Page 3. …

Easy task for Congress: Save the post officeCapital Times (blog)Ornate lock box doors to mailboxes in the Sextonville Post Office have an antique feel. Enlarge Photo. The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of a manufactured crisis. It is supposedly broke and headed toward its own version of a …