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Read More »EBay to build data center in Utah (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The online auction site eBay is planning to build a data center in South Jordan. The closing of the land sale was announced Monday by eBay Inc. and the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development. More: continued here
Read More »Major Shake-Up For Royal Mail (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Dutch postal giant TNT has expressed an interest in buying into Royal Mail, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced. More: continued here
Read More »Mandelson Says U.K. May Sell Royal Mail Stake to TNT (Update3) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown ’s government said it may sell a stake in Royal Mail Group Plc to TNT NV of the Netherlands, tapping investment needed to prepare the U.K.’s postal service for Europe-wide competition. More: continued here
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Post office workers are overpaid and waste three hours a day, says …guardian.co.uk, UK –3 hours agoEdward Leigh, the Conservative rightwinger who tried to privatise the Post Office when he was a minister 15 years ago, said: "I welcome New Labour to the …Mandelson Says UK May Sell Royal Mail Stake to …
Read More »Charity: Donated shoes ended up on eBay – United Press International
Charity: Donated shoes ended up on eBayUnited Press International –5 minutes ago16 (UPI) — A Tennessee charitable organization has filed a lawsuit over shoes that ended up for sale on eBay instead of being given to the poor. … More: continued here
Read More »Galveston’s post office delays reopening (11 News Houston)
The planned reopening on Monday of the island’s main post office was delayed until Wednesday as federal officials waited for the results of environmental tests. More: continued here
Read More »TNT in approach for part of Royal Mail (Financial Times)
The government is to part-privatise Royal Mail, by inviting a private sector operator to take a strategic minority partnership, as part of a package of measures to preserve the one-price-goes-everywhere universal postal service. More: continued here
Read More »$1M Shoe Donation Ends Up On eBay (WSMV Nashville)
A donation to Nashville-based Soles4Souls ended up being sold on eBay, and Soles4Souls has filed a federal lawsuit. More: continued here
Read More »Britain mulls selling stake in Royal Mail to foreign firm: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The British government is considering selling a large stake of the struggling state-owned postal service Royal Mail to a foreign company, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Tuesday. More: continued here
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