Women gather at Alplaus post office to knit and chatSchenectady Gazette, NYALPLAUS — Every Tuesday a group of six women from Alplaus meet in the local post office to knit and converse. Postal worker Elizabeth Burke started the group just over a year ago. “I got the idea to start the …

Royal Mail profit soars as postbag shrinksTimes Online, UKProfits at Royal Mail doubled to £321 million last year despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, in results likely to be seized on by unions attempting to stop Government plans to sell a stake in the group. … …

SENIOR MOMENTS: Just like old post officeBristol Press,  United StatesBy BOB MONTGOMERY Paul J. Marino, Jr. of Bristol sent me a letter talking about another post office that looks like the former one we had in Bristol. I had mentioned Bristol's old office was one of three built by the …

I bet Queen Victoria wouldn't whine about stamp pricesAugusta Chronicle, GAWe don't celebrate it here, and her picture isn't likely to show up on any of our postage stamps. Hey, who brought up stamps? Somebody did, so now that we're on the subject, we might as well mention that the price …

New York Post Takes on the Brooklyn JudiciaryNew York Times, United StatesThe state Office of Court Administration filed a motion on the judges' behalf to quash the subpoenas, calling them “nothing more than a dragnet fishing expedition.” It contends that The Post has not offered any indication that the people being …

eBay Taps Paul Jones as Global Director of Retail PartnershipsTrading Markets (press release), CAJones will work with eBay's team of more than 2000 Trust and Safety professionals to bolster eBay's ongoing efforts to prevent the sale of stolen goods through vigilance and strategic partnerships with law enforcement and retailers. … More: …

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) – Relief organizations in Aberdeen say they’re seeing an increased need for everything from food stamps to housing. More: continued here

EL DORADO HILLS – Eastbound Highway 50 between Folsom and El Dorado Hills looked more like a parking lot Saturday. The commute, which generally doesn’t take more than a few minutes, turned into a couple of hours for many drivers. “There was no notice ahead of time. All of a …

The eBay Trading Assistants Program and eBay Promotional Tools마인드스포츠올림피아드, South KoreaIf you are successful and really excel at eBay auctions, consider an additional source of revenue in the eBay Trading Assistant Program. You will have the opportunity to sell items for other eBay members on consignment with the eBay Trading Assistant …

A solid-gold NYPD Medal of Honor — crafted by Tiffany jewelers and handed to a cop 58 years ago for nabbing a gunman on the Upper West Side — has turned up for sale on eBay. The seller, Matthew Brandon-Hutchens, a 27- year-old actor from… More: continued here