A STAMP of approval has been received for establishment of a community post office in Flushing, which has been without a postal facility for more than a year. More: continued here

Daily Mail Burnley postman who stashed 31000 items of mail spared jailThis Is LancashireTasker, then a postman for 12 years, had been put under surveillance by the Royal Mail last September after reports from the public about mail not being delivered. On the day he was observed, he didn't start …

The U.S. Postal Service is proposing to make the closing of the Beallsville post office permanent. The postal service closed the post office in August on an emergency basis, saying it could not negotiate a new lease with the building’s owner. More: continued here

RBC Capital (RY) Analysts Raise Price Target on eBay, Inc. (EBAY) to $43.00NewsyStocks.comEquities research analysts at RBC Capital (NYSE: RY) boosted their price target on shares of eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) from $41.00 to $43.00 in a research note to investors on Thursday. The analysts currently have an "outperform" rating …

Contact: Mark Saunders, +1-202-268-6524, mark.r.saunders@usps.gov More: continued here

Review Of Postal Closing RejectedFort Smith Times RecordThe Rogers Avenue branch of the US Postal Service is in Park Plaza strip mall, facing Creekmore Park. It will close March 26. The Rogers Avenue branch of the US Post Office is in Park Plaza strip mall, facing Creekmore Park. The Rogers …

LI Cares revives stamp out hunger drivePort Times RecordThree decades after his death, singer/songwriter Harry Chapin is making a comeback by way of a US postal stamp if the Chapin family, Long Island legislators and Long Island Cares officials have their way. The US Postal Service issues … More: continued …

The Economist Still squeezing it all inThe EconomistMore than 130m picture postcards are received each year, reckons Royal Mail, 30m more than a decade ago. The volume of other personal mail, meanwhile, has fallen by a third in five years. Until 1894 it was illegal to send a picture by …

Tech Today: Earnings Season: Nokia; Intel; eBayWall Street Journal (blog)Earnings Season: Nokia; Intel; eBay: Finland may be blessed with long Summer days, but for one group today's forecast is dark and cloudy with a chance of falling market share. Finland's Nokia will report its second-quarter results today. … More: continued …

msnbc.com EBay Reports a Sales Gain but an Earnings SlideNew York TimesBy BLOOMBERG NEWS EBay reported a decline in second-quarter income on Wednesday and forecast lower than anticipated earnings, a sign that its acquisition spree was weighing on profits. Second-quarter net income was $283.4 million, or 22 cents a share, …