A Look at the Impending Post Office DefaultThe TakeawayBut the post office says it could all be avoided with a vote — a vote the House of Representatives is unwilling to make. Don Soifer is the Executive Vice President of The Lexington Institute and Executive Director of the Consumer Postal …

Examiner.com Legend of Zelda prototype sells for a record $55000Examiner.comThe eBay auction for the rare cartridge has ended with the accepted offer of $55000, setting a record for the highest sale price ever for a Nintendo Entertainment System title. According to seller Tom Curtin, the offer price was not the …

Red British mailboxes painted gold for OlympiansWBOC TV 16The Royal Mail plans to paint another mail box gold every time a British Olympic or Paralympic athlete wins a gold medal during the London games. The pillar boxes will remain in use, and will stay gold for some time. The mail …

Baysiders want post office to stayQueens ChronicleCongressman Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau) announced in July that he had learned the U.S. Postal Service was planning to move the post office into the annex on 216th Street as a cost-cutting measure and that no jobs would be lost. Ackerman noted … More: …

Telegraph.co.uk Olympics 2012: Royal Mail unveils special stamps to celebrate GB gold medal …Birmingham MailROYAL MAIL has unveiled its first sets of special stamps to celebrate Great Britain's gold medal winners. The historic win by Penzance's Helen Glover and her colleague Heather Stanning to become the first British women to …

Postal Service cuts hurt rural outposts the mostDetroit Free PressThe Postal Service, reeling from its failure Wednesday to make a $5.5-billion payment toward employee benefits, continues to move ahead with plans to cut hours at more than 13000 rural post offices. The proposed reductions are poised to strike the …and …

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Examiner.com Understanding the Post Office's Benefits MessBloombergThen in 2006, Congress forced the post office to start prefunding its benefits for retiree health care on a schedule designed to reach full funding in 10 years. Now, the Postal Service is supposed to put about $8 billion a year toward retiree health …

Under Obama, a more dependent nation?Muscatine JournalSecond, the Obama administration has made a far-reaching effort to increase the number of Americans on food stamps. As National Review's Rich Lowry reported recently, the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 17 million in 2000, to 30 …Voting out president …

EcommerceBytes ProPay Extends its eAuction Accounts to eBay SellersSacramento BeeLEHI, Utah, Aug. 1, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — ProPay (www.propay.com), an industry leader in Merchant Services, End-to-End Payment Security, credit card processing, and mobile payment services, is extending its integrated eAuction Account to eBay Sellers.Class of Online Vendors Unhappy With eBayCourthouse …