Rural postal carrier retiresClay Center DispatchThe Clay Center Post Office is asking rural customers to have patience as resources are stretched, rural routes are consolidated from five routes into four and Clay Center postmaster Morris Weyant assists the Wakefield Post Office. Rural Routes are … More: continued here

Rise in Food Stamps Part of Growing Dependence on WashingtonHeritage.org (blog)As Heritage experts Robert Rector and Katherine Bradley report, in the average month in 2010, roughly one of every five households in the U.S. received food stamp benefits. And those on food stamps today tend to rely on government more …

eBay HAMMERED for Freeze Policy and 4 Morning Hot Stocks Not to MissWall St. Cheat SheeteBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) experiences heat from a new policy allowing the company to temporarily freeze the accounts of suspicious PayPal users. The anti-fraud measures have hammered users ranging from individual sellers to start-up companies running … …

First Gold Medal Win Celebrated With Next Day Olympic Gold Medal StampSacramento BeeTo celebrate Team GB's first gold medal moment at London 2012, Royal Mail will produce a stamp in 24 hours to honour Helen and Heather's gold medal triumph in the Women's Pair Rowing. To view the Multimedia News …

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Telegraph.co.uk Post-masters lobby Government for 'vital' contractTelegraph.co.ukAlthough Post Offices already carry out a small number of jobs for the DVLA, such as providing drivers with tax discs and processing driving licence applications, the new contract is far bigger. It would include processing almost everything to do with …Suffolk: MP Dan …

Stamps seek answer to BurrisSt. Catharines StandardHamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Henry Burris gets the ball away as REUTERS Saskatchewan safety Craig Butler (28) tries to bring him down during the second half of their CFL game in Regina on July 28. Hamilton beat Saskatchewan 35-34 and Burris once … More: continued …

Red British mailboxes painted gold for OlympiansLas Vegas SunRoyal Mail says it has honored champion cyclist Bradley Wiggins and rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning by painting a mailbox gold in each of their hometowns. The mail service said Thursday it's the first time it has changed the color of …

eBay Hires Head of Strategy for MarketplacesEcommerceByteseBay hired Paul Todd to head strategy at eBay Marketplaces. The new Vice President of Strategy will report to Marketplaces President Devin Wenig, who joined from Thomson Reuters last year. Todd has experience across digital commerce and services from … More: continued here

The Drum Olympic star Bradley Wiggins receives Royal Mail stamp of approvalManchester Evening NewsAs soon as Bradley seized victory, a photo agency submitted a selection of images from that moment to the Royal Mail design team. They had just one hour to review all the images sent, locate the most …