Biggest ever £441000 auction shows stamp collecting bucks economyAustralia.TO, Australia –3 hours agoStamp collecting is showing its resilience in the downturn, with one of the industry’s busiest auctioneers putting on its biggest auction in 50 years. … More: continued here

EBay posts first ever quarterly sales dropLos Angeles Times, CA –16 minutes agoEBay reported lower fourth-quarter profits and its first ever drop in quarterly sales, as the global economic slowdown and the stronger dollar hurt its … More: continued here

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Members of the Gulliver Prep football team volunteered to work the FedEx Orange Bowl football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens. Pictured are: Harry Chewning, T.J. Reeves, Sorie Bayoh, Max Vandeput, Jackson Powell, Stephen Spinale, Billy Garcia, Jorge Sanz, Daniel Navarro, Andre Jean-Pierre, Jim Poling and Cedric Walker. More: …

The Royal Mail made an increased profit of £255 million in the nine months to Christmas, and all its businesses are in profit for the first time in almost 20 years, the postal group announced today. More: continued here

A Hammanskraal man who threatened to go on a hunger strike in protest against the South African Post Office’s alleged failure to pay him royalties for postage stamps he designed, has been persuaded to abandon the idea. More: continued here

Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns is to be honoured as the face of a set of postage stamps unveiled by the Royal Mail to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth. More: continued here

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Royal Mail was making hundreds of millions of pounds in profits while it shut 2500 post offices last year. More: continued here