USA Today Fast-food outlets want a piece of food-stamp pieDetroit Free Press26, 2011 photo, a sign outside of Papa Murphy's along Minnesota Ave. tells customers that EBT can be used at the store in Sioux Falls, SD The number of people on food stamps in South Dakota has jumped 75 …

Bomb alert at Chester Royal Mail sorting centre after white powder foundChesterChronicle.co.ukA BOMB alert caused disruption at the Royal Mail sorting office in Chester in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday, September 6). A worker raised the alarm about 2.40am after spotting a white powder leaking from a package …

ABC News Bondurant joins effort to keep post offices openDesMoinesRegister.comThe city of Bondurant has joined 44 other cities in the Iowans for Post Office Services. The group is asking Congress to push for a moratorium on closures of post office and postal facilities and service reductions. While Bondurant is not …

Chunk Of Anderson Skyline For Sale On eBayWRTV IndianapolisANDERSON, Ind. — A real estate broker in Anderson is taking the eBay craze to a new level, putting a portion of Anderson's downtown skyline up for sale on the popular shopping site. Before getting into real estate, Jeanne Clarkson said she …

share: digg facebook twitter Also making the trip to the FedEx Cup playoff semifinals is Boerne’s Jimmy Walker, who fired a closing 4-under 67 at Deutsche Bank to finish in a tie for 37th and improve his ranking in the Cup points chase. More: continued here

Munson: With post office's closure, Searsboro surrendersDesMoinesRegister.comThe Poweshiek County town will lose its post office later this month, and as a result, residents have voted to disincorporate. / Christopher Gannon/The Register Dave Phipps builds a platform to hold a cluster of residents' mailboxes in Searsboro. …and more » More: continued here

Post office worker fined for cannabis possessionAntigua ObserverST JOHN'S, Antigua – A General Post Office employee who is believed to have used his workplace to import cannabis has been convicted and fined $42000 for possession of one and three quarter pounds of cannabis. Mitchell Roberts pleaded guilty to … More: …

On one sweltering afternoon last week it felt as if the only cool breeze in town was blowing beneath the shade trees that towered over Floyd and Joan Snook’s yard. More: continued here

How to solve the Post Office's problemsReuters Blogs (blog)I like the fact that the NYT splashed Steven Greenhouse's article on the Post Office's woes all over its front page yesterday. There's not much new here, but it's a huge and important story and the public is far too ignorant of …

For well over a century, the small number of extremely rare Mauritius Blue stamps have remained under lock and key in collections across the globe. A new exhibition in Berlin brings together 18 examples of the stamps. More: continued here