Online Buoys Global Growth by Paring Distance: Cutting ResearchBloombergFour economists used data from San Jose, California-based retailer EBay Inc. (EBAY) to “breathe new life into the 'death of distance' hypothesis,” which maintains advances in transportation and communication should make international trade cheaper and …and more » More: continued here
ABC Local Papers and Post Offices– Why interning is more than just tedious workABC LocalOK – I did have to sort a mountain of old newspapers, and walk to the post office on the one, rare day of winter where it's a high twenty-something and blowing a dusty gale. But other than that, in the…
New York Daily News No postal love for Bart Simpson? Duuuude. Production on Simpsons …New York Daily News“If the Postal Service can't address a simple matter such as determining how many commemorative stamps to produce, it shows they can't address the larger problems,” Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, told Bloomberg News this…
Heidi Jo Jordan, who embezzled more than $10,000 from the Zanesville post office, is sentenced to three years of probation in federal court. The judge decided on probation after learning that Jordan, 38, already had repaid $5,000 of the $11,560 she stole and that the first-time offender was seeing a counselor for serious mental-health issues….
CHURCH HILL — There were no injuries reported after an 85-year-old Church Hill woman crashed through the front glass window of the Church Hill Post Office on Main Boulevard Wednesday morning. More: continued here
24 Hours Vancouver Ultimate Stamp honoured with … StampLondon Free PressCALGARY – Wayne (Thumper) Harris was the ultimate Stamp, so it's a natural he's on the franchise's stamp. But the Harris family never expected such an honour to be bestowed on the patriarch. When Harris was a ferocious hitter at middle linebacker from …Lewis deemed…
89.3 KPCC (Not) going postal: Postal workers face an uncertain future in the digital age89.3 KPCCThe post office used to be a great place to work: high pay, full benefits and — most importantly — job security. But that was before a cascade of announcements that the U.S. Postal Service plans to cut costs by…
Photos: Venice Post Office Surrenders to Renovations Under New Hollywood …LAistThe deafening sounds of excavation and construction—beeping, banging and jack hammering—fill the salty sea air of Venice's Windward Circle; construction on the Venice Post Office is underway. Hollywood producer Joel Silver showed enthusiastic … More: continued here
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Postal regulator backs rural post office, junk mail plansThe Hill (blog)The Postal Service's regulator has backed the agency's plan to shorten hours at potentially thousands of local post offices. USPS said in June that it would examine whether to reduce hours at roughly 13,000 rural post offices as it shifted away…
Telegraph.co.uk Paul Lambert stamps his authority on his Aston Villa players by banning the …Telegraph.co.ukPaul Lambert stamps his authority on his Aston Villa players by banning the use of mobile phones and laptops. Paul Lambert has banned his players from using mobile phones and laptops as he attempts to stamp his authority on his Aston…