mediabistro.com UK Royal Mail Issues Six Roald Dahl Stampsmediabistro.comBy Maryann Yin on February 27, 2012 3:07 PM With a few days left in the Month of Letters Challenge, the UK Royal Mail has issued six “gloriumptiously” collectible stamps for Roald Dahl fans. Here's more from the description page: “Six of …

New stamp upsets local tribeGilroy DispatchThe cemetery archway is the first thing Ramirez, who now lives in San Jose, sees when she studies the Carmel Mission Express Mail stamp recently unveiled by the US Postal Service. Created in “honor of nearly 250 years of California history,” the design … More: …

Anyone for lunch at The Post Office?Ukiah Daily JournalBy JODY MARTINEZ The Daily Journal Coldwell Banker Broker John Lazaro said there have already been "multiple offers" for Ukiah's historic post office at 224 N. Oak St., which the Postal Service closed last month and then listed for sale. More: continued …

Watermarking Photos, Removing Date Stamps, Erasing Power Lines, and MorePCWorldSome digital cameras (and old film cameras) let you stamp the date directly on the photo–but I highly discourage this practice, since I feel that this ruins your photos. Who wants to see a gorgeous landscape photo with bright orange text …

Marketing Week Royal Mail fails to deliver on first class targetsThis is StaffordshireRoyal Mail's latest quality of service report showed that 90.9 per cent of first-class mail was delivered on time between September 5 and December 4, down from 91.2 per cent during the previous quarter. In the CW area, …

Sacto 911: Former Lassen County postmaster pleads guilty to embezzlingSacramento BeeKristina Michelle Morris, 38, of Bieber pleaded guilty today in federal court in Sacramento to embezzling money from the Bieber Post Office, according to a federal Department of Justice news release. According to court documents, between Oct. 1, 2010, …Former …

The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that the Terre Haute mail processing plant would close its doors. The announcement sent many local businesses into a panic but one mail processing business says the outcome may not be as bad as predicted. More: continued here

Cash Better Than Food Stamps in Helping Poor: Edward GlaeserBloombergMore about Edward Glaeser Newt Gingrich has been castigated for referring to President Barack Obama as the “best food-stamp president in American history.” I, too, dislike the former House speaker's inflammatory phrasing. Yet I am also troubled by the … More: …

BET Ebony/Jet Founder John H. Johnson Honored With US Postal StampBETJohnson's Black heritage stamp joins other notable names such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., singer Ella Fitzgerald, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, poet Langston Hughes and baseball legend Jackie Robinson. His stamp, along with those of US …John H. …

The University Post Office is running out of student mailboxes due to growth in enrollment. The post office had been accommodating growth by adding new mailboxes, said Greg Foster, the post office's support services supervisor. But recently, limited space and funding have halted expansion. "We just don't have any place …