Berkeley letters: Residents need the post officeSan Jose Mercury NewsResidents need the post office. I was shocked to learn in the Berkeley Voice that the postmaster wants to close and sell the post office in downtown Berkeley. This is very disturbing to me. I am disabled, do not drive and …

NorthJersey.com New stamp honors baseball legend and Paterson Eastside High School alum …NorthJersey.comPATERSON — A portrait-sized representation of the forever stamp featuring Major League Baseball Hall of Fame legend Larry Doby was unveiled at a ceremony Thursday morning in the city post office that bears his name. Larry Doby, Jr., …

Maximum PC Final Fantasy II cartridge surfaces on eBay — for $50000CNETThe cartridge is a prototype NES version of the game made for the U.S. market, described on eBay as "the only REAL copy in the world of this lost game". The seller, "fefea," is asking for $50,000 or a …

American Dream for sale on eBay for $3.5 millionGlobalPost (blog)A Florida man is selling three video game stores, a waterfront townhouse, a rental condo, three cars and two kayaks on eBay, in what he claims is a little piece of the American dream. "I'm selling my American dream on eBay," …

MarketWatch Big Lots initiatives include food stamps, frozen food, revamped loyalty programColumbus Business First (blog)The Columbus-based closeout retailer Thursday said it will test several new initiatives between now and early 2013, including adding frozen food, accepting food stamps, revamping its loyalty program and remodeling stores. “We're moving forward, not …Big …

Afternoon Coffee: eBay Uses Big Data to Save $$$, Dole Salad Recall, GM Cuts …Spend MattersThe Surprising Way eBay Used Big Data Analytics to Save Millions — After crunching those numbers –talk about big data! –the results were telling. eBay uncovered underutilized servers, misconfigured devices and other inefficiencies. In fact, …

FedEx specializes incost-effective shipping, packaging, monitoring and distribution solutions designed for pharmaceuticals, lab samples, surgical instruments or other critical life-sciences products. More: continued here

Information Age Post Office plans implementation of 'service towers' worth £360mComputerworldUKThe Post Office has revealed that it plans to adopt a 'service towers model' to provide IT services across the organisation, and has issued two contracts worth up to £360 million to support these. 'Towers' are set up so that …

George D. Mercer, graphic artistWashington PostMr. Mercer, a Washington resident, had worked for the Postal Service and the old Post Office Department as an artist and stamp designer for about 16 years. He previously did graphic design work for the Navy, Vitro Engineering Corp. and the Afro … More: continued …

D'oh! Post office stuck with millions of 'Simpsons' stampsNBCNews.comHas "The Simpsons" fandom run its course, or did the U.S. Postal Service simply dream too big? The post office produced 1 billion "Simpsons" themed 44-cent stamps in 2009, but only 318 million were sold, the New York Times reports. That leaves …