Downtown post office off the market for nowTampa Tribune, FL – George WilkensBy GEORGE WILKENS PLANT CITY – Postal officials announced Thursday that they have "no immediate plans," to close the downtown post office. Rumblings about the potential closing triggered a large-scale petition drive to save the post office, … More: continued here
eBay to close Burnaby facility; about 700 jobs lostVancouver Sun, CanadaeBay plans to slap the locks on its Burnaby customer service centre, throwing about 700 workers out of a job. "The action is expected to capture efficiencies, expand support to customers and facilitate the delivery of new service programs focused on … More: continued here
Sky News Gordon Brown's YouTube fightback (shame about that swastika though)Times Online, UK – Philip WebsterFor good measure Mr Brown and his ministers slapped down an overnight attempt backed by Labour MPs to boost the finances of the Royal Mail without resorting to a controversial sell-off of part of the business. Mr Brown was trying to get down…
TrustedReviews Forget Apple, Amazon Should Buy Twittter. Why Not?TechCrunch, CAOne of the least-understood benefits of tightly tying PayPal to ebay transactions is the resulting free promotion paypal gets being front-and-center in all ebay transactions. Visa or Mastercard would have to pay millions and millions to get that kind …Apple Said to Wrap Up $700m Twitter PurchaseTrustedReviewsApple…
Road to Recovery: Residents rely on food stampsThe News-Press, FLFood stamps: Households must have a monthly gross income less than or equal to 130 percent of the federal poverty level and net income less than or equal to 100 percent of the federal poverty level. – The 2009 federal poverty level for a family of four…
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown is clearly emulating one of his predecessors in his attitude over Royal Mail. The problem is that the predecessor that he has chosen is Margaret Thatcher. More: continued here
Doubts are growing over the Government’s ability to find a buyer for a 30pc stake in Royal Mail. More: continued here
Members of the Calgary Stampeders will be back in local schools this week as part of the GreenZone Sustainability Blitz Speaker Series. More: continued here
James McP writes “According to an article on Archaeology, fake artifacts being sold on eBay have caused the bottom to drop out of the low-end artifact market. This outcome is exactly opposite to what archeologists feared would happen when eBay came on the scene. A side effect of more and more forgers getting in on…
An anthropologist says eBay has made it more profitable for tomb raiders to create fake artifacts than to pilfer burial sites or other archeological digs. More: continued here