Growing town to receive second post office at lastThis is BristolA LONG-awaited second post office is to open in Portishead next month. Post Office Ltd has confirmed this week it is to trial a new Post Office Local service in Port Marine. The post office will be based in the Wickety Woo and Friends store…
EcommerceBytes eBay Runs Promotion for Fixed-Price Listings, Stores ExcludedEcommerceByteseBay is running a promotion for Buy It Now listings. According to an announcement on a page on its site that has yet appear on its Announcement Board, eBay is giving sellers up to 5000 free listings in the Fixed Price format from August 8 through ……
A GABF ticket for $50000? The guy behind the eBay listing explainsWestword (blog)But the twenty-something man, who goes by the eBay handle b0rderman, wanted to make a statement about the popularity of craft beer. Westword contacted b0rderman to find out exactly what that statement is. Here is his rant — and it's a good one:…
Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stampsSanta Maria TimesThe Royal Mail has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for gold medalists. The stamps feature the athlete in an action photo taken as they were competing _ and with Britain in third place ……
It is not the fact that the Royal Mail have said they will not produce stamps for each Team GB Paralympic gold medal-winner which is annoying (although it is). What has really got my goat is the supine way ParalympicsGB has accepted it. More: continued here
BBC News Alistair Brownlee's Gold Post Box104.7 Minster FMTo celebrate the win, Royal Mail also produced special gold medal stamps yesterday, which are on sale in more than 500 Post Offices today, including the Post Office on Church Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, neighbouring his home town of Horsforth.Royal Mail's Olympic race to produce medallist stampsBBC…
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 have ever lived, were piled…
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 stamps for winners of …and…
A PRESTATYN post office has been given a grant worth up to £20,000 to carry out upgrades and improvements. 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 the damage very quickly as…