Celebrate Flag Day with new US flag stampNorth Fort Myers Neighbor, FLOne way you can honor the American flag is by using the US Postal Service's Flag stamp on all of your letters year 'round! The new US Flag stamp being issued on June 5 in McLean, Va., will be on …
Read More »Deputies investigate reported robbery outside Strathmore Post Office – Visalia Times-Delta
Deputies investigate reported robbery outside Strathmore Post OfficeVisalia Times-Delta, CATulare County sheriff's deputies are investigating a reported robbery of a woman Tuesday outside the Strathmore Post Office. The woman, from the Porterville area, told deputies that shortly before 10:30 am, she was placing her young child into her …Woman's purse snatched …
Read More »Royal Mail doubles profits – Financial Times
Royal Mail doubles profitsFinancial Times, UKBy Jean Eaglesham, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown came under increased pressure on Thursday to abandon contentious plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, after the postal operator announced a near-doubling in its annual profits. … More: continued here
Read More »eBay Sellers Say Free Auctions May Cost Them – Auctionbytes
Auctionbytes eBay Sellers Say Free Auctions May Cost ThemAuctionbytesBy Ina Steiner eBay announced a special new fee structure on Tuesday that goes into effect next month, but sellers say the five free auctions eBay is giving them may actually cost them more in commission fees than the old pricing structure, …
Read More »Lord Mandelson urged to save his local post office – Camden New Journal
Camden New Journal Lord Mandelson urged to save his local post officeCamden New Journal, UKPENSIONERS fighting to save a Regent's Park post office from closure are pinning their hopes on one of its more prominent neighbours – Lord Mandelson. The Labour peer lives in a mansion just a few minutes' walk …
Read More »Striking Dunfermline posties' fury after managers flown in as cover – Dunferline Press
Striking Dunfermline posties' fury after managers flown in as coverDunferline Press, UKby Dunfermline Press Reporter STRIKING Dunfermline postal workers are furious after Royal Mail splashed the cash to bring in more than 80 managers from all across the country to cover their jobs. More than 100 postal workers went on strike …
Read More »Postal worker charged with embezzlement – Detroit Free Press
MyFox Philadelphia Postal worker charged with embezzlementDetroit Free Press, United StatesA Macomb County postal worker charged with stealing more than $19000 in stamps and selling them for discount online to help pay his mortgage was arraigned Tuesday in US District Court in Detroit on an embezzlement charge. John Auito, 42, of …
Read More »Ex-postal worker sorry for stamp price increase – Central Maine Morning Sentinel
Ex-postal worker sorry for stamp price increaseCentral Maine Morning Sentinel, ME(Stamps were around three cents at that time.) My first Christmas paycheck that year for 162-hour two-week period was about $320 (before taxes plus paying into our retirement fund). I still had that pay stub until just a few years ago; …
Read More »Mail chiefs have learned nothing – The Bolton News
Mail chiefs have learned nothingThe Bolton News, UKADAM Crozier, chief executive of Royal Mail, has been paid in excess of £2 million a year by taxpayers in wages, bonuses and a gold-plated pension. Crozier's CV of advertising salesman and chief executive of the Football Association hardly qualified … More: continued here
Read More »Postie BNP leaflet row – The Star
Postie BNP leaflet rowThe Star, UK"Bearing in mind large areas of S5, like Firth Park, have a large Asian and other ethnic minority population, I find it disgusting that Royal Mail would allow this to happen. "I myself will be refusing to deliver the leaflets and, like other members of … …
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