Telegraph.co.uk Belgians join rush for stake in Royal MailTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe private equity-backed Belgian postal group De Post-La Poste has become the latest in a string of overseas companies to register interest in acquiring a stake in Royal Mail. By Mark Kleinman CVC Capital Partners, the buyout firm which has made …

PM takes on mail criticsTeleText, UKGordon Brown has taken on critics of Government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail – urging them to face facts about the problems facing the service. The PM said that he recognised the concerns of unions and many Labour MPs and would listen to them … …

Stamps& Coins: Lincoln's memory is as shiny as the new penniesSacramento Bee,  USAEarlier this month, I traveled to Springfield, Ill. I had received an invitation from a friend to attend the Lincoln Society dinner there celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The added attraction was the evening's speaker: …

Times Online Gordon Brown attacks 'indefensible' bank practicesguardian.co.uk, UKA hundred Royal Mail protesters jeered and booed Brown as he arrived at the forum. The demonstrators were voicing opposition to his plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail, an issue that has split the Labour party. Brown said he was listening to the …

Neither snow, nor rain … but maybe financesNorthwest Herald, ILArea residents in the Cary Post Office one day this week had mixed opinions. Linda Trexler of Cary stops at the post office at least once a week to mail grant documents for a nonprofit organization. She said she opposed the idea …

guardian.co.uk Royal Mail: union backlash grows over Mandelson planguardian.co.uk, UKPhotograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images The scale of the backlash against Lord Mandelson's proposals to partly privatise Royal Mail is laid bare today in a warning from Labour's eight largest unions that the proposals are electorally unpopular, … More: continued here

A part-privatised, utterly wrecked postal serviceTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomMaybe I should give the Prince of Darkness a chance to set out how he is going to "save" the Royal Mail by carving it up into little bits and selling the best parts to foreign parcel firms. But I just feel we've been …

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Video: Cave Foreclosure? eBay Subterranean (Photos) Dwelling AuctionPost Chronicleby Maria Gomez A unique home is now facing foreclosure and is currently being auctioned on eBay. Sure, you've heard plenty of stories about foreclosures, but we bet you've never heard about anyone about to lose their cave. That's …

Talkback: County aims to keep post officePort Huron Times Herald, MISt. Clair County's administrator wants to set the record straight about the county's efforts to keep the post office in Port Huron. St. Clair County Administrator Shaun Groden: "To Ken from Port Huron: In Thursday's TalkBack, you said you asked St. …

County facing rising need for food stampsMSNBCRequests for food stamps in Lee County are skyrocketing. Some might say Tiffany Stoughton serves as the perfect face of this downed economy. She is a middle class, twenty-something mother with another child on the way. Now, she has taken a drastic but … …