Peruvian Postage Stamps Feature Endangered BirdsThe ChattanooganThe Peruvian Postal Service has announced two new postage stamps featuring two of the world's most endangered birds, thanks to the efforts of Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos, American Bird Conservancy's partner in Peru, and the Natural History Museum of … More: continued here

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Marketing Week Regulator backs Royal Mail setting pricesFinancial TimesRoyal Mail will be freed to set prices for the majority of its products under proposals from Ofcom, the communications regulator, in a move that could boost government hopes of eventually privatising the …Royal Mail Stamp Prices Set to Rise?MarketWatch (press release)UPDATE …

ABC News (blog) GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions: Food Stamps'Out of Control'ABC News (blog)Food stamps, he told ABC News' “Top Line” today, are a symptom of a government run out of control. “No program in our government has surged out of control more dramatically than food stamps,” said Sessions, R-Ala. “And …

Senate passes bill to rename post office for fallen Plymouth soldierThe Patriot LedgerBy Anonymous Legislation filed by Massachusetts by Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown passed the Senate on Thursday that would rename the US Post Office in Sagamore Beach after Staff Sgt. Matthew Pucino of Plymouth, who was killed …

Despite initial eyebrow-raising, the digital privacy rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that it’s smoothed out most wrinkles it might’ve had with Amazon’s coming Silk browser. More: continued here

Bill would protect rural post officesSalina JournalBy the Salina Journal US Senator Jerry Moran has introduced a bill to protect some rural post offices from closure. The “Protecting Rural Post Offices Act,” listed as Senate Bill 1668, would prohibit the US Postal Service from closing a post office if …and …

Broad Brook Resident Charged With Assault on Federal OfficialPatch.comRichard Covill, co-chairman of East Windsor's Economic Development Commission and a candidate for board of finance alternate, allegedly shoved his former supervisor at the US Post Office on Weston Road in Hartford. By Larry Smith Broad Brook resident …Ex-Postal Employee Charged With …

ST. ANTHONY – About 60 Chester and Parker Post Office patrons heard a Postal Service official explain that cold, hard economic reality is the reason the agency is proposing to close many post offices across the state and nation. More: continued here

ONLY months after Australia Post was swamped with petitions fighting closure of the historic Timor Street post office, it is about to be hit with another community wave pushing for a new postal outlet in the city’s north. More: continued here