NZ giants to feature on stamps and coinsOtago Daily Times, New ZealandFive giant creatures – past and present – found in and around New Zealand are being featured in a combined stamps and coins series released by New Zealand Post today. The five-stamp series showcases the colossal squid, southern right whale, …

Bonnie Lowenthal food stamp bill would help former foster childrenContra Costa Times, CABy John Canalis, Staff Writer By John Canalis LONG BEACH – A bill by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal could make it easier for foster children to receive food stamps when they turn 18, the Long Beach Democrat said Monday. Assembly …

TNT eyes Royal MailThe Journal of Commerce Online, NJThe UK government last week published proposals for the sale of an initial 30 percent of Royal Mail, provoking fierce protests from its own Parliamentary lawmakers and labor unions. "Equity could be swapped, businesses merged or a partner could take a … More: …

Washington Post Post-9/11 Memos Show More Bush-Era Legal ErrorsWashington Post, United StatesThe opinions were initially drafted — and later repudiated at least in part — by the Justice Department's storied Office of Legal Counsel, which issues interpretations of laws and presidential authorities considered binding on the entire executive …WH releases Bush …

Taxes, post office at issue in Winter Park's mayoral electionOrlando Sentinel, FLAs mayor, Strong brokered a deal to buy out the developers of The Carlisle for $3.7million, giving the city the option to convert the property to park land if it spends another $4million to move the post office. Two years …

Oops: $62000 trailer sold for $1on eBay after school district screwupPocono Record, PAThe seventh was put up for auction on eBay. District Superintendent Rachael Heath said she gave the go-ahead for the online auction, citing a March 2007 board decision that authorized administration to use eBay to sell obsolete computer equipment, …

Pile of personal letters left unattended in post officeWWL, LAOn Sunday afternoon, Jim Anderson walked into the post office on MacArthur Boulevard in Algiers to mail some letters. That's when something in the lobby caught his eye. "After I mailed the letters, I looked at the desk that was in the …

Thousands of Minnesotans missing free mealsMinneapolis Star Tribune, MNLow-income Minnesotans are skipping meals not just because they can't afford them but because they're not tapping available food shelves, food stamps and meals programs, according to a study released Monday. The study found that there's a gap between … More: continued here

Royal Mail on the mat for private buyersFinancial Times, UKBy Jim Pickard The Royal Mail has been in the hands of the British state since Charles I set up Britain’s postal delivery service in 1635, but that is about to change. Maintaining the service and its 160000 workers in public ownership …

Telegraph.co.uk Mandelson is wrong – Royal Mail isn't a lame-duck industryguardian.co.uk, UKPeter Mandelson correctly reminds us that this government was "elected on a manifesto commitment to preserve Royal Mail in public ownership" (The postal priority, 26 February). Indeed, since the 2005 general election the Labour party has firmed up its …Barack …