MyFoxOrlando.com Leave food at mail boxes to 'Help Stamp Out Hunger'Maryville Daily Times, TN – Rheta MurryArea post office carriers and volunteers both from the food pantries and post offices will pick up the food. Local postal services, United Way of Blount County, Community Food Connection and Chilhowee Baptist Center are working together …

Postal workers for public ownershipguardian.co.uk, UKIt offers a way forward for Royal Mail which will be both practical and popular. The alternative is to continue with privatisation proposals, which are both risky and unpopular. The central idea of the pamphlet is that it is possible to successfully … More: continued here

BBC News Web 'could save post bus service'BBC News, UKRoyal Mail's bid to increase business through mail orders and online shopping could be a way of restarting post bus services, an MSP has claimed. Jamie Stone hosted a meeting between the company and Highland Council following the cessation of five post …

AFL-CIO Letter carriers plan Saturday food driveThe Columbian, WA – Laura McvickerBY LAURA MCVICKER Cathy Hulse and Don Young, both Letter Carriers Food Drive organizers, Vancouver Postmaster Sara Lovendahl and Stop Hunger Warehouse manager James Fitzgerald discuss goals at the Caples Avenue post office for Saturday's annual Letter …Food drive set for SaturdaySouthwest …

Ross Lydall: Labour rebels post a warning to party leadersScotsman, United Kingdom – Ross Lydall, Ross LydallThat is what has happened to the Postal Services Bill, which contains the proposals to part-privatise the Royal Mail Group and split the letters and parcels business (what we know as Royal Mail) from the Post Office's network …

eBay Announces Plan to Consolidate North America Customer Service …WELT ONLINE, GermanyeBay (Nasdaq:EBAY), the world's largest e-commerce marketplace with 88 million active users, today announced plans to consolidate its North America customer service facilities. The action is expected to capture efficiencies, expand support to customers … More: continued here

ITV.com Chemists and post offices to take fingerprints as part of national …Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom – Tom WhiteheadJacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will announce today that she is in talks with the Post Office, National Pharmacy Association, whose members include Boots, and the Photo Marketing Association International, to provide enrolment centres for the …

Nick Brown asked to deliver the undeliverableguardian.co.uk, UKAfter taking his share of the blame for Commons defeats on MPs expenses and the Gurkhas, Nick Brown is in the thick of the row over part-privatisation of the Royal Mail. "He's the nicest chief whip we've had to deal with, not at all …

Times Online Jacqui Smith enlists high street help for ID cards schemeguardian.co.uk, UKThe Post Office, the National Pharmacy Association and the Photo Marketing Association are all in talks with the Home Office over the contract. The cost report puts the figure for issuing ID cards to British and Irish citizens in …

New stamps cool, costlierPress-Enterprise, CA – Bob PratteWes Levins tries to reduce confusion before a first-class stamp rises from 42 cents to 44 cents Monday. He touts the wonders of Forever Stamps, which cost the going first-class rate and will be sufficient after the price hike. … More: continued here