LONDON — Online auctioneer eBay says that bids for one of the wackiest pieces of royal wedding headgear have approached 18,400 pounds ($30,000.) Princess Beatrice’s massive, ring-and-bow-shaped hat, turned heads at the wedding of her cousin Prince William last month and has since become an Internet sensation. The Philip Treacy …

PLANS are progressing to find a new home for Bridgwater’s main post office when it moves out of Martin’s newsagents in the town’s Angel Place Shopping Centre in September. More: continued here

Kansas City Star Princess Beatrice's hat going for $30K on eBay (Photos)OnTheRedCarpet.comThe most recent bid for the "gravity-defying hat" Princess Beatrice wore to the wedding of Prince William and Catherine, which was put on auction on eBay earlier this month, is more than $30300. Proceeds from Beatrice's hat's eBay auction, …

Royal Mail'made £3.2 million in five years selling off "lost" items'myHermesRoyal Mail has revealed it has netted a total of £3.2 million over the past five years by selling items that were "lost" in the post. Last year alone, the company made £824000 by auctioning parcel contents off, the Sunday …

Fox News Michigan $2 million lottery winner on food stampsReutersDETROIT (Reuters) – A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close. Leroy Fick, who lives near Saginaw, …Michigan Man …

Daily Mail eBay"sale" of toddler was just a joke, Mich. babysitter tells policeCBS NewsA Western Michigan woman caught apparently trying to sell her 2-year-old cousin on eBay told police it was a joke, reports the Grand Rapids Press. 19-year-old Autumn Braden from Allendale, who was watching the toddler at the …

Senate looks at ways to help post officeBusinessWeekFor the first three months of the year the post office was more than $2 billion in the red and it's facing an $8 billion loss for the fiscal year. Sen. Tom Carper said Tuesday he is introducing a bill to restructure the …

The U.S. Postal Service is only months away from running out of money, and the end of Saturday mail delivery might be just around the corner. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is asking Congress for the authority to cut service from six to five days a week as part of a …

The Post Office moves closer to mutualisation after a report recommends ways in which ownership could be transferred to staff and customers. More: continued here

Poster Sizes Give Hunters New Way to Enjoy Duck StampsPR Newswire (press release)OMAHA, Neb., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Federal duck stamps, one of the great sporting art traditions in America, are now available in unaltered poster sizes that are true to the original stamp. Since 1934, each Federal Duck …