:: Royal Mail Royal Shakespeare Company stampsCommunication Arts"These stamps were commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The final designs were created in collaboration with illustrator Marion Deuchars whom we asked to provide hand drawn lettering to contrast with the … More: continued here

Postal service, stamp collectors have seen better daysHeraldNetThat's how long you have to snap up Forever stamps before they go up a penny — again — this time to 45 cents. I lost track of how much a stamp cost a few years ago. It was in 2007 when the …

As Congress considers legislation to reform the business model of the Postal Service, it must confront a basic choice: to permit the Postal Service to function more as a business does, or constrain it from doing so. More: continued here

Thomas Sowell: Post office should face competitionAppeal-DemocratThe post office is a classic example. Post offices were once even more important than Eastman Kodak, and for a longer time, as the mail provided vital communications linking people and organizations across thousands of miles. But, today, technology has …CT mail industry backs …

Postcard stamps depicting the state’s iconic Aloha shirts will go on sale Thursday at U.S. Postal Service offices around the country. More: continued here

CBS Local Baltimore Community Protests Post Office ClosureCBS LocalBALTIMORE (WJZ) — Facing some major money trouble, the US Postal Service is forced to make some tough decisions. Forty-one post offices are slated for closure, 10 just in Baltimore. But as Mike Schuh reports, those living near one of them aren't …

Daily Mail EXCLUSIVE: Bon voyage! Axed Tindall in talks with BiarritzDaily MailThe prospect of the Gloucester centre leaving these shores and taking his royal wife Zara Phillips with him is now a distinct one after Tindall opened talks with the Top 14 side. Fined for his drunken antics in Queenstown …

On a chilly afternoon recently, David Choe put down a spray-paint can and walked away from the 36-foot portion of a murhe was at work on at City Hall Events Venue on Broadway. More: continued here

To leave a stamp on the young onesDaily News & AnalysisThe postal stamps are printed records of our history, geography, culture, science, and it is important that the children know this and they conserve it, feels post master general of Pune Colonel KC Mishra. “We want the children to know …

Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Some offices will be closed and some services will be unavailable. Schools: Closed Lane Transit District: Regular service Banks: Closed Stock market: Closed Lane County garbage sites: Closed Lane Apex, Royal Refuse and Sanipac: Regular service Mail: No service Public libraries: Eugene and Springfield …