In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the latest in social media monitoring tools, investigate how cloud computing is being used in scientific research projects, review some future Firefox concepts, check out the latest iPhone app usage stats, …

Post office takes cost cutting measuresWLFI.com, INMail carriers are finishing their routes in less than eight hours, so the post office is adding more routes to some carriers and reassigning others. "Some carriers may even find themselves becoming mail processing employees working in the plants … More: continued here

A collector’s 10,000 Abraham Lincoln stamps sold yesterday at a Big Apple auction for nearly $2 million. The collection took 67-year-old William Ainsworth, of Roswell, Ga., more than 30 years to amass. Among the collection’s highlights was a… More: continued here

London, Apr 18 : A pub landlady is all set to make a ‘Royal’ deal by auctioning Camilla’s throne – a toilet seat used by the Duchess of Cornwall – on eBay. More: continued here

The Lafayette Post Office is taking cost cutting measures because of the economy. A decrease in mail volume has forced the US Postal service to adjust its routes, and make some internal changes to save costs.   More: continued here

The Duke of Edinburgh has become the longest-serving consort to a British monarch. More: continued here

The head of a Florida agency in charge of food stamps says that call centers in India will no longer handle questions from food stamp recipients who use a debit-like card to buy groceries. More: continued here

Associated Press – April 17, 2009 7:05 PM ET DALLAS (AP) – A Georgia man’s collection of thousands of President Lincoln stamps has sold at auction in New York City for $1.961 million. More: continued here

KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia will issue special stamps and a first-day cover featuring Malaysia’s past and present accomplishments in engineering. More: continued here

Dallas — A Georgia man’s collection of more than 10,000 Abraham Lincoln stamps has sold at auction in New York City for a total of nearly $2 million. More: continued here