Utah has offered online auction giant eBay an incentive worth as much as $1.7 million to entice the company to add up to 200 customer-service jobs in Draper. More: continued here

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Royal Mail has doubled its profits despite a huge fall in the number of letters being posted prompting calls to stop partprivatisation of the group. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Amazon Kindling: Spoof Kindle made of wood for sale on ebayTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomA spoof Amazon Kindle made out of wood has been put up for sale on the online auction house ebay. By Matthew Moore Dubbed the Kindling, it was devised as a Luddite's alternative to Amazon's ebooks, which allow …

Royal Mail doubled its profits to £321 million last year, triggering demands that plans for a part-privatisation should be killed off. More: continued here

Roseville Press Tribune Meg Whitman says she'd cut 30000 state workersSacramento Bee,  USABy Peter Hecht Meg Whitman, who became a billionaire while helping eBay grow to 346 million users, called Thursday for sharply shrinking California's work force by laying off more than 30000 state employees. In a luncheon speech to …

Hearst Castle painting to be holiday stampSan Luis Obispo Tribune, CAA picture of a “Madonna and Child” painting at Hearst Castle will be available to grace millions of holiday cards, letters and other mail after the US Postal Service issues its 2009 Christmas stamp on or about Oct. 20. It won't …

Stamp price rises 2 centsMarietta Times, OHBy Justin McIntosh, jmcintosh@mariettatimes.com In one book alone he has 1500 stamps, and his oldest cataloged one dates back to 1950. But when he went to the post office Saturday, collecting wasn't on his mind. "I use a lot of stamps, … More: continued here

Last post for mail cycleMirror.co.uk, UKThat's the slogan of Royal Mail bosses, who want to scrap bicycles in favour of shared vans. At present, bikes are used on a quarter of the country's 65000 delivery routes, and the pedalling postie is part of the British way of life. … More: continued …

Royal Mail's massive profit hard to take in HighlandsAberdeen Press and Journal, UKBy Jonny Muir and Rita Campbell Community leaders spoke of their astonishment last night at a Royal Mail announcement that its profits had doubled to £321million in the same year that it imposed swingeing cuts on post office services …