The Morgan Scott Project in Deer Run, Tenn., offers a variety of services to impoverished people living in the Appalachian Mountains. Among people living in that region 29 percent live below the poverty line and 18 percent use food stamps…. More: continued here

The internet entrepreneur behind an online video game inviting users to throw footwear at US President George W Bush says he sold the property on eBay in just four days. More: continued here

NOXEN TWP. — Clutching protest signs and cups of coffee, residents gathered around Cathie Pauley as she shouted through a bullhorn, perched on the steps of the Noxen Post Office mobile trailer. More: continued here

This is Money Royal Mail sell-off 'as early as April'This is Money, UK –14 minutes agoThe controversial part-privatisation of Royal Mail could be completed by April after the government appointed investment bank UBS to help secure outside … More: continued here

Maryland hospitals have stepped up debt collection, sometimes from the poor, and Gov. O’Malley demands review W illie Mae White began worrying how she’d pay the $36,224 bill from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center a few weeks after having emergency brain surgery. She lived off Social Security and food stamps …

COLLINSVILLE — It may not be much, but the people of Collinsville are ready to fight for their little post office. More: continued here

DOHA: The Arab League has approved in principle the transfer of the Arab Stamps Museum from its present seat at the Arab League General Secretariat to Doha. More: continued here

Looks like Santa’s sleigh will be a little lighter this year. Delivery of packages and mail has been down with the rest of the economy. More: continued here

COLLINSVILLE — Crammed into the former two-car garage that houses this village’s miniature post office, residents from Collinsville and surrounding Milford Twp. spoke adamantly Friday, Dec. 19, about how the office is central to their community. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk UBS to search for Royal Mail investorTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –1 hour agoInvestment bank UBS has been appointed by the Government to help it find an investor in the Royal Mail. By James Hall The bank has been drafted in to help …Royal Mail critics demand changes at top as Mandelson eyes …