Tough economy means a Pasadena post office is movingLos Angeles Times, CA –3 hours agoThe Star-News reports on one such case in Pasadena: A troubled economy has meant billions less in business mailings and is prompting a local post office to … More: continued here

Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday the creation of an account management system to increase service to Floridians on federal assistance programs. The number of recipients of food stamps and other services has grown more in Florida in the past 18 months than in any other state. More: continued here

Remembering the Anita Post OfficeAtlantic News Telegraph, IA –3 hours agoformer Anita Postal Clerk, asked that a story should be written about the old Anita Post Office. The Post Office, located on Main Street now the home of the … More: continued here

It’s 4:30 a.m. and Victoria Villalba is awake, BlackBerry in hand, pondering the e-mail she received a few minutes earlier. It’s another desperate plea from a laid-off worker asking to find him work, another e-mail ending with the same three words, “I’ll take anything!” More: continued here

Three arrested for post office burglaryYork News-Times, NE –2 hours ago4, the Seward County Sheriff’s Department arrested three people after a week-long investigation into a burglary at the post office in Beaver Crossing. … More: continued here

For bid on eBay: 1 Ill. Senate seat, slightly wornGalesburg Register-Mail, IL –4 minutes agoRod Blagojevich, more than a dozen people have put the state's vacant Senate seat up for bid on eBay. The offers popped up on the Internet auction site … More: continued here

Hell Mail Editor Condemns Pre-Christmas Royal Mail StrikesHell Mail, UK –1 hour agoSteve Lawson, editor for Hellmail, the postal industry news site has condemned calls for pre-Christmas strike action by Royal Mail workers. …Postal workers to strike over centre closureBolton NewsStrike threat to postal servicesBBC NewsMail centres vote to go on strike …

Axed post office will stay closedThe Paisley Daily Express, UK –32 minutes agoTHE POST office has confirmed the shutters ARE coming down permanently on a vital town centre branch. The post office at Burnbrae Avenue in Linwood was … More: continued here

More West Virginians receiving food stampsDaily Mail – Charleston, WV –4 minutes agoMore West Virginians are receiving food stamps than ever before, according to federal data and the state Department of Health and Human Resources. … More: continued here

NORWALK: New Canaan Man Charged With Food Stamp FraudHartford Courant, United States –7 hours agoState officials say a New Canaan man has been charged with food stamp fraud, accused of using the stamps while he had access to hundreds of thousands of … More: continued here