Royal Mail launches DM website to showcase cross-media integrationPrintWeek, UKThe Royal Mail has launched a new online resource aimed at helping marketers get the most out of their direct mail campaigns and how it can integrate with other electronic media. The Mail Media Centre, which is being positioned at the UK’s …

Gap, eBay and Symantec Join Business Coalition Calling for Action …PR Newswire (press release), NYWASHINGTON , March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ceres President Mindy Lubber today announced that three new companies — Gap Inc., eBay Inc. and Symantec Corp. — have joined a new business coalition, Business for Innovative Climate and Energy …

<b>Council rubber-stamps college’s academy switch</b>Worcester Standard, UKPLANS to transform Elgar Technology College into an academy moved another step closer to fruition on Monday. The decision was taken by Worcestershire County Council’s cabinet to support the discontinuation of the school at the end of the summer and … More: continued here

The Associated Press Missouri Family Will Keep CaveWall Street Journal Blogs, NYThe Sleepers, who have three children, had plans to auction their cave home on eBay, with an opening bid of $300000 (see related post). The paperwork for the deal with Logical Source was in process but had not yet been …

De Koopman Check Out Line: Anyone bidding on an overhaul at eBay?ReutersCheck out the transformation eBay, the Internet’s premier auction website, hopes to pull off. Trying to ease fears its best days are in the rearview mirror, eBay is counting on growth at its PayPal payments system and jump-starting its …

Christopher Hitchens Baffled By Post OfficeWonkette (satire), DCThis occurred just after the Senate voted to block the amendment that would have taken away Congressmen’s scrillz, so he was probably in a good mood. Behind chris hitchens in line at post office at florida and 20th. He looks confused and disheveled but …

Royal Mail says sorry for Corsham post blundersGazette & Herald, UKBy Rachel Allen » Royal Mail has apologised to people in Corsham for lost or late delivery of post after teething problems in the wake of the closure of the town’s sorting office. Corsham Town Council agreed on Monday evening to …

Group aids students seeking food stampsUNM Daily Lobo, NMMara Kerkez rummaged through her desk for nuts and cereal bars when a student walked into the Welcome Center asking for a bite to eat and information about food stamps. "She told me she was hungry, and she wanted to know if UNM …

Agencies hired for Royal Mail battlePRWeek UK, UKThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the Royal Mail Pensions Trust have both drafted in fresh PR support, as the row over plans to privatise Royal Mail rumbles on. The CWU has called in crisis specialists Media House International as it seeks to … …

Postal Service goes 'green'Journal and Courier, INBy Bob Scott • bscott@journalandcourier.com • March 12, 2009 The US Postal Service has started the "Three R's" program to help post office box customers recycle. There are several blue, 23-gallon "Read, Respond, Recycle" bins in the post office lobby …Readers' Forum: March 12, 2009Terre …