CHICAGO — For sale: One Senate seat. Goes to the highest BLEEP-ing bidder. Seller’s positive feedback rating: since Tuesday, just about zero. Outraged by the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, more than a dozen people have put the state’s vacant Senate seat up for bid on eBay. More: continued …

Making his stampHastings Star Gazette, MN –1 hour agoJim Caturia was first encouraged to enter a painting in the federal junior duck stamp contest during his senior year at Hastings High School by then-art … More: continued here

Workers’ woes help fuel food-stamp surgeAtlanta Journal Constitution,  USA –12 minutes agoBy Craig Schneider A skyrocketing number of Georgia families are collecting food stamps, another sign that more people are having trouble putting food on … More: continued here

KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia has set up a mobile post office and a mail operations room to serve Bukit Antarabangsa residents. Those in the area where the landslide occurred can collect their mail from the operations room at the temporary relief centre in Sekolah Kebangsaan Ulu Klang. More: continued here

JACKSONVILLE, FL — It’s an all-time record: nearly one in ten Americans are using food stamps to put food on the kitchen table.  St. Johns County alone saw a 52% increase in the number of people asking for help. More: continued here

Officials: More Ga. families apply for food stampsColumbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA –5 minutes agoAP — Officials say the number of families using food stamps has dramatically increased, and it may continue to skyrocket as unemployment and foreclosures … More: continued here

A skyrocketing number of Georgia families are collecting food stamps, another sign that more people are having trouble putting food on the table in these difficult economic times. The state has generated about 10,000 new food-stamp cases a month since July, state officials said Thursday. Georgia had a total of …

Repairs to the Post Office clock in Smith St were completed yesterday. More: continued here

Posties 'pressurised to walk fast'The Press Association –3 minutes agoThe union said delivery workers were being pressed to complete "unrealistic" rounds to gain financial savings. The Royal Mail denied the union's claims. More: continued here

Royal Mail refuses to deliver Christmas cardLincolnshire Echo, UK –43 minutes agoChristmas cheer seems to have missed the post after Royal Mail stopped a card from being delivered to a Lincoln pensioner, despite being within the …Longer hours on the cards for Royal Mail's Callers OfficesEdinburgh Evening NewsRoyal Mail’s festive plansDaily PostMail …