Take a look at the Royal Mail’s new set of stamps featuring classics of British design – pieces as iconic as the Mini, Concorde and Routemaster buses More: continued here
Read More »Gold stamps honour Gabon’s postman-turned-president (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Gabon’s post office has printed 6,000 stamps in 22-carat gold in honour of President Omar Bongo Ondimba, a former postal worker, the head of the national postal service says. More: continued here
Read More »Where have all the pint-sized collectors gone? – KIVI-TV
Where have all the pint-sized collectors gone?KIVI-TV, ID –3 hours agoWhenever friends and family gave her stamps, especially from foreign countries, she would study them. Then she would turn to the Encyclopedia Britannica for … More: continued here
Read More »Woman falls for lottery scam – MSNBC
Woman falls for lottery scamMSNBC –5 hours agoThe women then drove to Publix and asked the victim to go inside to buy some stamps. When walked out of the store after buying the stamps, the women were … More: continued here
Read More »Anniversary Stamps (Jersey Insight)
A new set of stamps has been produced to mark seventy-five years of flights between Jersey and Southampton. They show pictures of all the planes that have flown the route over the years. More: continued here
Read More »Arrests over fatal post office raid (Express and Star)
Arrests have been made in the police investigation into the fatal West Midlands post office raid, in which sub-postmaster’s son Craig Hodson-Walker was shot dead. More: continued here
Read More »New British stamps celebrate design icons (The Charlotte Observer)
(The Associated Press) A new set of postage stamps celebrates a century of British design icons – from the Mini car to the miniskirt. The Royal Mail stamps feature 10 different 20th-century design classics. They include the red double-decker bus, the Concorde supersonic jet, the orange-and-white Penguin paperback and the …
Read More »McDonald’s, FedEx Lead $11.4 Billion of Corporate Bond Sales (Bloomberg)
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant company, and FedEx Corp. are leading at least $11.4 billion of bond offerings today as borrowers take advantage of investor demand for higher-yielding debt. More: continued here
Read More »Eight arrested over killing of Craig HodsonWalker in village post office robbery (Daily Telegraph)
Eight held over murder of Craig HodsonWalker shot dead defending his parents’ village post office. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Freight offers next-day guarantee (The Trucker)
MEMPHIS , Tenn. — FedEx Corp. said Tuesday it will offer a money-back guarantee for delivery by 10:30 a.m. the next day through its freight unit. FedEx started its regional less-than-truckload freight service in 2001 and began offering a next-day guarantee in 2003. More: continued here
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