Strike threat to postal servicesBBC News, UK –7 minutes agoThe move is likely to affect deliveries and collections in the TA5, TA6 and TA7 postal areas. No one from Royal Mail was available for comment. More: continued here

Mobile post office, logistics support for Bukit Antarabangsa residentsNew Straits Times, Malaysia –3 hours agoPos Malaysia will station a mobile post office and a mail operations room at the temporary relief centre in Sekolah Kebangsaan Ulu Klang. … More: continued here

Offwell shop is a Post PointMidweek Herald, UK –3 hours agoOffwell Parish Council has paid Royal Mail to continue collecting letters and parcels from the community shop. Collections are once-a-day, five days-a-week. … More: continued here

BridgewaterEquity.com Free Fundamental Sector & Market Research on …SYS-CON Brasil, NJ –9 minutes agoeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) Sector: Services 2. Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) Sector: Technology 3. Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) Sector: … More: continued here

‘I’m interested in the early post offices of Santa Barbara.’The Santa Barbara Independent, CA –2 hours agoShip arrivals were big events, and folks would mosey by whatever establishment was presently serving as the post office to check to see if they had gotten … More: continued here

Britains Royal Mail delivers letter after 89 yearsThaindian.com, Thailand –3 hours agoLondon, December 9 (ANI): An RSVP reached a Dorset guesthouse through Britains Royal Mail 89 years after it had been posted. The letter dated November 29, … More: continued here

Christian Science Monitor Matchbox museum offers small view of big historyChristian Science Monitor, MA –1 hour agoA box of matches then cost just a satang (1 cent), he notes, so they were “cheap and easier to collect than stamps, which other boys like to collect. … More: continued here

Postal service will get worse if jobs move, say MPsStoke & Staffordshire, UK –5 hours agoThe city's three representatives, Mark Fisher, Rob Flello and Joan Walley, have come out in opposition to Royal Mail's plans to move up to 400 jobs from …Postal staff agree to take strike actionCoventry TelegraphOur postal service …

Stamps should be seen as legal tenderNorthumberland Today, Canada –3 hours agoOn a day I went to the post office to send a letter, I asked the lovely lady behind the counter, "If I bring back all the stamps that won't peel would they … More: continued here

NORWALK – A New Canaan father of five was arraigned yesterday on charges of bilking the state out of more than $12,000 in food stamps while he controlled the bank account of an energy company and had hundreds of thousand of dollars in two investment accounts at his disposal. More: …