EBay has purchased German vendor BillSafe to complement its PayPal online payment system, the company announced Thursday. Terms were not disclosed. More: continued here

In Defense of the Post OfficeU.S. News & World Report (blog)Our friends working overtime at the Post Office this holiday season deserve a heap more respect than they have been given–by Congress and by extension, the public. With every Christmas card you write, think of how far it goes and …

A senior vice president at FedEx has apologised after one of the company’s delivery drivers was caught on CCTV throwing a computer monitor over a fence. More: continued here

It was a package that arrived just before Christmas , but it wasn’t the usual holiday gift. More: continued here

Post office repreive announced at opening of public hearing More: continued here

All through the 1970s, Jaye Baldwin sorted out the mail in the tiny post office at Whitetop, Va., a Grayson County community standing just above the tri-state corner of Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. More: continued here

eBay sales lead to theft arrestsThe Morning SunBy SUSAN FIELD Stolen items that ended up on eBay led to the arrest of two Isabella County men in connection with thefts at the Mt. Pleasant Country Club in October. Matthew James Henning, 20, of Blanchard and David Gary Appleton, 22, of …

U.S. Postal Service worker Simon Sanchez Jr. moves a cart of packages Wednesday at the Post Office Aspen Center. ELKO — It might not be a white Christmas in Elko, but it’s proving to be a green one for post offices and retail businesses around the area. More: continued here

Over the past 5 years the need for food stamps in South Dakota has doubled and the cause is something that affects us all. More: continued here

The downtown Yankton post office will close in January, and its operations will move to the Fox Run Annex at 506 West 25th Street. More: continued here