After spending a brief period of time unemployed, Michael Wright is getting back into the businesses he knows best. Wright, who owns Creative Solutions, opened Statesville’s first FedEx Authorized Ship Center off West Front Street near Compare Foods in February. Creative Solutions also provides U-Haul truck rentals and computer repair. …

A Concord man is in custody in the stabbing death of a Clayton man inside the city’s main post office Saturday, the first homicide of the decade in the normally tranquil city, authorities said. The victim was identified by relatives as Raymond Casso, who had… More: continued here

Associated Press – March 7, 2009 11:34 PM ET CLAYTON, Calif. (AP) – Police arrested a suspect who they say stabbed a man to death inside a post office, the first homicide in the small city of… More: continued here

Daily Mail Royal Mail Privatisation – Balloon Goes UpHell Mail, UKHellmail exclusive: A small crowd gathered as hundreds of balloons were released in front of Manchester Town Hall in Albert Square this morning, one balloon for each year of Royal Mail's entire history. The event marked a protest against plans by …

The “mortgagee sale” signs have come down from Dunedin’s former chief post office, the developer of which owes a finance company more than $7.5 million, but it has not been sold. More: continued here

Post office closes W. Side annexThe Republican – MassLive.com, MA7, means that letter carriers from West Springfield and Springfield who started and ended their days at the so-called Riverdale Station will work out of the Agawam and Springfield Post Offices. Forty letter carriers from West Springfield will work from … More: …

Economy, hurricanes spark uptick in food stamp applicationsWWL, LAVereb started reached out to Catholic Charities for help, as well as applying for food stamps through the state. “I had to go and apply myself to help myself out, with bad luck time I’m going through,” Vereb said. “I didn't want to …

Bill Maher: What’s Wrong With the Post Office?Truthdig, United StatesJust imagine, they say, if their businesses were run like the post office. “You mean the place that takes a note in my hand in LA on Monday and gives it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday for 42 cents? …

Labour’s Royal Mail rebels should back down because the Tories may soon get power and impose a tougher deal, Lord Mandelson warned. The Business Secretary said it was the current Government’s “last throw of the dice” at reforming the postal service, after a decade of failing to find consensus. More: …

Will that be cash, credit or EBT? That’s the question vendors at the Rockingham County Farmers Market will be asking in May, when the market will begin accepting electronic benefits transfer cards. The EBT cards are provided to people who receive food assistance, traditionally known as food stamps, through local …