San Diego Free Press What Congress Doesn't Know About The City Heights Post OfficeSan Diego Free PressIt was stinking hot walking from the 40th Street transit stop on University Avenue to the City Heights Post Office four blocks away. Cumulus clouds, a sure sign of summer rain everywhere else I …

STLtoday.com (blog) Britain's Royal Mail in hot water over gold medal Paralympic discriminationSTLtoday.com (blog)While most of Great Britain celebrates surpassing the nation's prescribed pre-Olympics total medals target, the Royal Mail service has found a way to embroil itself in a political snafu after it admitted that it would not issue …

A PRESTATYN post office has been given a grant worth up to £20,000 to carry out upgrades and improvements. More: continued here

Instead of portraits of the queen, Britain is getting kings and queens of sports.The Royal Mail has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for … More: continued here

Daily Mail Postbox painted gold in honour of Jessica Ennis's Olympic heptathlon triumph …Daily MailThe post box, in Barker's Pool, Sheffield, was painted gold on Sunday to honour Jessica Ennis's gold medal in the heptathlon. Royal Mail said it did not know what the graffiti said as an engineer repaired …

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BBC News 'Wrong' postbox painted gold in honour of Olympian Peter CharlesBBC NewsRoyal Mail has painted the "wrong" postbox gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles. The postbox in Alton was painted after Charles won a gold medal in the Olympic equestrian event along with Scott Brash, Nick Skelton …

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LONDON – Instead of portraits of the queen, Britain is getting kings and queens of sports. More: continued here

Royal Mail attracted criticism for not honouring Paralympic athletes in the same way as Olympians. More: continued here