Costco, eBay, Google and the nation's top art museums are backing a Thai graduate student against book publishers, the movie and music industries in a Supreme Court battle over copyright protections with important implications for consumers. More: continued here

Business Insider EBay Cutting 325 Jobs in PayPal Division Restructuring PlanBloombergPayPal accounted for 43 percent of EBay's revenue last year, compared with 25 percent in 2007. While sales rose 23 percent to $1.37 billion in the third quarter, that gain was less than the 32 percent jump to $1.11 billion …

Julia Stamps-Mallon and Chris Mocko win weekend raceSanta Rosa Press DemocratDefending champion Julia Stamps-Mallon of Santa Rosa and Chris Mocko of San Francisco were the victors in Saturday Wine County Half Marathon, which started in Geyserville and finished in Healdsburg. Each took home $400 each and a magnum of wine. …

The Atlantic Avoiding Financial Armageddon at the Post OfficeThe AtlanticIt involves significant savings from changes in benefit plans, decreased service levels (e.g., moving from six to five-day delivery), some post office closures, and continued headcount reductions. It also involves continued price increases and …Post offices fight for life against new …

eBay Inc. today announced a planned fourth quarter pretax restructuring charge of approximately $15 million related to staff reductions at the company's PayPal business unit. More: continued here

BBC News Guernsey and Alderney Christmas stamp designs revealedBBC NewsThe designs for this year's Christmas stamps for Guernsey and Alderney have been released by Guernsey Post. The set of seven stamps for each island show scenes from the nativity story and will be issued on 31 October. The stamps were …

New school to be built on land of old Royal Mail depot in Ascot RoadWatford ObserverHertfordshire County Council agreed today to secure the land on the old Royal Mail depot in Ascot Road. Supermarket Morrisons is already in advanced negotiations to build a new store on the site and has …

The USPS is an analog business being rapidly consumed by digitization. Here's a plan to update and rescue it. Reuters "Now it seems strange How we used to wait for letters to arriveBut what's stranger … More: continued here

Bronxville Post Office Closed For Hurricane SandyThe Daily VoiceA large number of Bronxville residents have been coming in over the past few days to send out their mail before the storm hits, said post office employee Kathy Valentine. "It was really crowded earlier this morning from about 9 to 10, …

EcommerceBytes Google, eBay side with student in Supreme Court case on resale of books …San Jose Mercury NewsKirtsaeng used eBay to sell $900,000 worth of books published abroad by Wiley and others and made about $100,000 in profit. The international editions of the textbooks were essentially the same as the …