Bay Area Reporter Milk stamp backers eye SF artist's paintingBay Area Reporter, CAby Matthew S. Bajko San Francisco artist Jim Leff has been creating stamp artworks since the 1980s. The postage mockups run the gamut from being homoerotic to political in nature. His first in the series, created in 1984 when …

Emirates Post opens 100th Post Office at Arabian CenterTMCnetDubai, Apr 01, 2009 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) — Emirates Post has opened its 100th Post Office at Arabian Center, the new shopping mall in Al Khawaneej, Dubai. The event coincides with the centenary year of postal services in the …

The Union Leader Landmark eatery, Post Office Fruit, closesThe Union Leader, NHBy DENIS PAISTE MANCHESTER – Downtown landmark Post Office Fruit, a luncheonette whose heyday was in an earlier era when the Manchester Union Leader was the dominant presence on Amherst Street, has closed and its owners have put the building …

VT Food Stamp Benefits IncreaseFox44 News, VermontVermonters on food stamps will get a little more help. 3squaresvt has received $34 million as part of the federal stimulus package. Starting Wednesday, April 1, 2009 people in the program will get more money each month. The benefit increases are based …Low-Income Vermonters Get …

News14.com California food stamp benefits going up 13.6%Los Angeles Times, CABy Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Michael Rothfeld California food stamp recipients will receive 13.6% more benefits thanks to the federal economic stimulus package, the state Department of Social Services announced Wednesday. …NYC gets more food stamps from stimulusBusinessWeekFederal Stimulus Increases NY Food …

Shopping on eBay just got a bit more rewarding, at least for some users of the online auctioneer’s site. On Wednesday, eBay Inc. launched a “beta” test version of eBay Bucks, a program that lets participants earn a 2 percent reward on certain items they buy… More: continued here

Plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail are so poor, a cross-party committee of MPs has said, they would even be rejected on TV’s Dragon Den. More: continued here

BOSTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. package-delivery company FedEx Corp said on Wednesday a Washington state court ruled the people who handle its deliveries in that state are independent contractors rather than employees. A class action suit against the company’s FedEx Ground unit involving 320 workers in the state sought …

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) — The U.S. Postal Service and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising have announced the Simpsons will soon be featured on 44-cent stamps. More: continued here

The Simpsons, America’s most enduring — or is that endearing? — dysfunctional family will be honored on their own stamps, the Postal Service announced. More: continued here