Bellingham's stamp and Coin Place expands with antique, collectibles areaBellingham HeraldCarole Osier looks over the new S&C Etc. antique store at 105 E. Holly St. in downtown Bellingham, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. The new store, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. …

My Wheelchair and Me: A (Temporary) Love Story for the AgesHuffington Post (blog)One day you are a reasonable active middle-aged woman who keeps her house clean, walks to the post office to mail regular packages to her daughter in college, and takes long hot baths at the end of a …

It's been lost in the post for a while, but Royal Mail's £4bn privatisation project finally looks like an imminent delivery. Yesterday the group dispatched first-class half-year results to the Government's doorstep: hitting Britons with stamp price hikes of up to 40 per cent helped Royal Mail to post a …

Sun-Sentinel Taking the food stamp challengeSun-SentinelThe Food Stamp Challenge is a national effort to raise awareness of hunger in America and is backed by Jewish organizations, synagogues, religious leaders and community activists. Participants are asked to live on a Food Stamp budget of $31.50 per …Reporter lives off $31.50 for …

WJXT Jacksonville Post office blames pranksters for upside-down flagRochester Democrat and ChronicleThe upside-down flag flying outside the Clarkson post office this weekend was the result of pranksters, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service. “I can assure you that this was an act of mischief,” Karen L. Mazurkiewicz, …

One in two letters delivered by Royal Mail is now junk mail, as the postal service's chief executive warned households to expect more marketing letters as the group seeks higher revenues from businesses. More: continued here

Wall Street Journal PayPal Works to Take Its Business OfflineWall Street JournalNearly eight months into his job as president of eBay Inc.'s PayPal, David Marcus is pushing the payments processor off the Web and into stores. In his quest to find new ways to extract funds from users, Mr. Marcus …

Projected Post Office Pension Surplus Shrinks as Rates FallBusinessweekPostal legislation the Senate passed in April would refund what was then an estimated $11 billion FERS account surplus and allow the post office to create its own health-benefits system. The Senate legislation would determine the repayment amount based …and more » More: …

Anger as Royal Mail profits soarshropshirestar.comRoyal Mail chief executive Moya Greene said the timing of the privatisation was a matter for the Government, but she believed the organisation could not generate the investment it needed by itself. The group said in its interim report that preparations … More: continued here

Parcels help Royal Mail profit soaric CheshireOnlineRoyal Mail has reported a huge increase in half-yearly profits as growth in parcel deliveries made up for a continued fall in the number of letters being sent. Group operating profits in the six months to September were £144 million, compared with £12 … …