Your Stories: A Marine's Family Challenging Post Office Policy13WHAM-TVIn August 2010, about eight months after he was killed in Afghanistan, the Hornell Post Office was renamed the “Zachary Smith Post Office Building” after an act of Congress and the President of the United States. That designation includes a small …Marine's …

Auctionbytes (press release) Top 10: Rare Collectibles Sold on eBay in April | Artist & Artisans DominateAuctionbytes (press release)WhatSellsBest.com, a website tracking top items selling on eBay, has published the Top 10 Rare Collectibles sold on eBay in April (2012). The list appears to be dominated by vintage products and …

The owner of a St. Paul store will spend 41 months in prison for trafficking food stamps, the Department of Justice said. More: continued here

KSTP.com Prison sentence for storekeeper who trafficked in food stampsMinnesota Public RadioA federal judge has sentenced a Twin Cities man to nearly three and a half years in prison for food stamp fraud. Khaffak Sahib Ansari of Arden Hills pleaded guilty last year to trafficking food stamps. He operated a …

Globe and Mail Stamps lose Brandon Isaac; two-year veteran signs free-agent deal with ArgosCalgary Herald (blog)Brandon Isaac, who played the strong-side linebacker position (in essence, a sixth defensive back) for the Stamps last season, and did a nice job at it, has signed a free-agent deal with the Toronto Argonauts. …

Today I stopped at the post office to buy some new stamps and discovered last summer's commemorative series, Pioneers of American Industrial Design Stamps.They feature very cool household objects from the 1930’s to the 1960s.   More: continued here

Paul Ryan Defends Cutting Food Stamps For The Poor: 'You Have To Get Savings …ThinkProgressPaul Ryan (R-WI) defended his budget's major cuts to food stamps outside a town hall on Friday, telling ThinkProgress that “we think you have to get savings in some of these areas where you've had a …

Post office turns 100Northland Independent Community100-YEARS: Bay of Islands-Whangaroa Community Board member Bruce Mills and former telephone switchboard operator Betty Smith cut a birthday cake for the old Kaeo Post Office while deputy mayor Ann Court and Far North District councillor Di Maxwell look … More: continued here

Concern Over Post Office Closings Prompts Letters from WV SenatorsWVNS-TVurged the US Postal Service to reconsider closing 150 post offices and consolidating mail processing centers in West Virginia as these actions unfairly target jobs and postal services in West Virginia, as well as other rural states.and more » More: continued here

Post–office closings threaten small towns' service, identityScrippsNewsBy KEVIN DIAZ, Minneapolis Star Tribune Beverly Sigfrinius isn't moving, but the US Postal Service wants to give her a new address. That's hardly the worst part of shuttering the post office in Calumet, Minn., where she uses the same post office box … …