Fix up Your Mailbox and Get Ready for Higher Stamp PricesMPBN News, MEIt's time to gussy up your mailbox: Mailbox Improvement Week is on the way, along with a hike in the price of stamps. The US Postal Service designates the third week in May as a time to encourage customers …

The Royal Mail has doubled its profits to £321m despite a huge fall in the number of letters being posted, the firm announced today. More: continued here

Community fights to keep post officeKTKA.com, KSAt a town meeting, the postal service told the 60 residents in attendance, who were all in favor of keeping the Randolph Post Office, one option was to move the service to Olsburg. Randolph residents would have to drive 9 miles to pick up and …

With the news industry crumbling, analysts and others are looking at the micropayment approach, which could ultimately serve eBay well. More: continued here

Unions seized on bumper profits at Royal Mail to argue that a doubling of profit, despite a continued fall in the number of letters being posted, should render controversial government plans to part privatise the company obsolete. More: continued here

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Royal Mail To Introduce Zonal Access Prices In 2010Hell Mail, UKRoyal Mail is to introduce zone-based access pricing from April 2010. The move follows an application to Postcomm in November 2008 which has been accepted, albeit held back to allow access customers to prepare for the price changes. … More: continued …

Daily Mail Royal Mail profit doublesReutersLONDON (Reuters) – Royal Mail posted a doubling of full-year operating profit with each of its four units contributing for the first time in two decades, and said its pension fund deficit had also doubled. Royal Mail, which runs mail, parcel delivery …Royal Mail doubled …

A former postal carrier from Macomb Township has been charged with stealing $19,110 worth of stamps and selling them at a discount on the Internet to fund his mortgage payments, according to federal postal investigators. More: continued here

Post Office Recognizes Sevilleta Land Grant With StampMountain Mail, NMThe La Joya Post Office will recognize the Sevilleta de la Joya Land Grant of 1819 with a commemorative cancellation post mark. La Joya postal clerk Sarah Rivera de Córdova said the US Postal Service has given the office permission to honor …