* The Hays Post Office will operate on a holiday schedule Monday, in observance of Memorial Day. Regular residential and business deliveries will not be made. Post Office box mail will be available in accordance with Sunday/holiday schedules. More: continued here

No wonder stamps keep going upMarketplace, CAIt has been cutting back on delivery days and continually increasing the price of stamps. It did go before Congress this year and ask for a bailout because it's running out of money. Oh, and guess what happened on the sale of the $1.2 million …

BBC News Post bus replacements cost moreBBC News, UKHighland Council would have provided a £35300 subsidy to the Royal Mail post bus routes. Instead, interim measures to ensure the communities affected still have access to public transport could run to an estimated cost of more than £87000. … More: continued here

For those of us who crave a little spice in our lives, Isaan food can’t be beat. At Thara Thong, Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Tower’s award-winning Thai restaurant, we’re taking Isaan cooking to the More: continued here

Historic Calcutta cover with Lincoln stamp may fetch $1MTimes of India, IndiaWASHINGTON: When the letter with the 90-cent Lincoln stamp was mailed in 1873 by an ice exporter in Boston to his office in Calcutta, Mohandas Gandhi (later Mahatma) was a toddler of four, Narendranath Dutta (later Swami Vivekananda) was a …

Neoseeker Nintendo gets Amazon & eBay to ban flash cartsNeoseekerMajor online retailers Amazon and eBay have both been pretty relaxed about selling flash carts for the Nintendo DS and DSi, up until now. Flash carts, if you're still not in the know, are devices which allow users to partake in …

A British court ruled Friday that Internet marketplace eBay is not liable for bogus beauty products sold on its Web site, dealing a blow to cosmetics company L’Oreal’s legal campaign against the online auction giant. More: continued here

Calls for a bank to be set up at the Post Office are gaining growing support from MPs, with more than 200 signing a Commons motion backing the idea. More: continued here

Perry said she didn’t want it to come to that but at this time, it was not economically viable. “Unfortunately, without the revenue from the post office, there wouldn’t be enough money coming into the business to keep it afloat,” she said. More: continued here

BINGHAMTON — Delays in mail delivery are one of the major concerns if the post office consolidates its Binghamton and Syracuse mail-processing operations in Syracuse. More: continued here