Campaign seeks to have Hmong leader Vang Pao honored on postage stampSacramento BeeVang Pao, the venerated Hmong leader who died in 2011, is now the subject of a campaign seeking to have him honored on a US postage stamp. Jasmine Yang, a mail carrier in South Natomas, initiated a petition …

Devizes man driven to theftThe Wiltshire Gazette and HeraldFoster, 25, of Longcroft Avenue, Devizes, who, until his arrest was also a retained firefighter in Devizes, admitted stealing 14 packets belonging to Royal Mail when he appeared before magistrates in Salisbury on Tuesday. Bob Booker, prosecuting …and more » More: continued here

Hartville Post Office in Wyoming features Valentine stamp; but this may be its …The RepublicThe Post Office in the tiny eastern Wyoming community of Hartville gets a lot of business this time of year. The Hartville Post Office offers a special postmark, which has the town's name and a large …

Late GP Koirala's postal stamp affixedHimalayan TimesSpeaking at a programme for affixing the first cancellation marks on the commemorative stamp depicting the portrait of the late Girija Prasad Koirala, the supreme personality of Nepali politics, here on Friday, NC president Koirala said the Unified …and more » More:

Downtown post office site chosen for Student Urban Design CompetitionUltimate Montroseby Chris Peters | February 11, 2012 10:30 am Urban Land Institute's Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition will award $80000 to the top four proposals for Houston's downtown post office. Student design teams will submit a hypothetical … …

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Dutch Authorities Start Probe Into Hacker Attack at KPNBusinessWeek11 (Bloomberg) — Dutch authorities began probing a hacker attack at Royal KPN NV after the phone company temporarily blocked e-mail accounts of about 2 million clients because confidential data of 539 KPN users were put online.and more » More: continued here

AuctionBytes Blog (blog) New eBay 14-Day Minimum Return Policy Unfair to Sellers?AuctionBytes Blog (blog)In eBay's last year's "SR2" (Seller Release 2), they announced that early this year (2012), sellers would no longer be able to specify 3- and 7-day return policies; the minimum return period would be 14 days, and …

"It was a common perception among people that stamps are mostly printed with the faces of eminent people like Mahatma Gandhi. However, the recent initiative of the postal department of issuing personalised stamps, which allows people to get stamps printed with their own face has completely democratised postal stamps in …

Feds should means test food stamp recipientsSacramento BeeRe "State must expand access to food stamps" (Editorials, Feb. 8): I am surprised that The Bee would endorse reducing verification requirements for food stamp recipients in a time of federal and state budget deficits. The food stamp program …and more » More: continued …