SD County Approves New Food Stamp PlanKPBS, CAThe San Diego County Supervisors voted yesterday to enact a new plan meant to increase the number of people participating in the food stamp program. But critics say some of the steps required to get assistance actually deter people from signing up. …Plan To …

Europe’s highest court ruled today that the universal postal service provided by UK’s Royal Mail should be exempted from VAT, following a complaint from Dutch international mail group TNT. More: continued here

A post office in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, is closed following a raid by police investigating fraud allegations. More: continued here

Post office food driveThe Landmark, MAThe Rutland Post Office is participating in the national Post Office Food Drive, Monday, May 4 through Saturday, May 9. Non-perishable food items may be brought into the post office during that week or left by your mailbox. Collected food will be used … More: continued …

Fernandina Beach Commissioners were expected to accept Tuesday night a non-binding letter of intent from the U.S. Postal Service to purchase the historic Centre Street post office building and take on its multimillion-dollar renovation and operating costs. More: continued here

PC Postage Revenue of $18.3 Million; GAAP Net Income of $1.2 Million; Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings per Share of $0.13 More: continued here

End of the roaming rip-off, claims Reding. The cost of sending text messages on your mobile phone while abroad in the EU is set to fall sharply in July, after a new law was approved on Wednesday. More: continued here

Four men have now been arrested in connection with a raid on a post office in Nottingham. More: continued here

Brockton Post Office to be Renamed The Rocky Marciano Post OfficePR Newswire (press release), NYBROCKTON, Mass., April 23 /PRNewswire/ — The Brockton Post Office, located at 120 Commercial Street in Brockton, will be renamed the Rocky Marciano Post Office in a formal ceremony at 2 pm on April 26th at the …

Royal Mail must modernise if it is to maintain traditional and …The Herald, UKSome important points need to be made in response to your editorial ("Royal Mail's future – this is not the time to sell public institution", April 21). The government's proposals have at their heart maintenance of the six-day-a-week, …