eBay noted in its 10K filing with the SEC that a class certification motion is scheduled for June 2009 in the Malone v. eBay Inc. antitrust class action lawsuit . In 2007, two eBay sellers filed separate lawsuits against the company, subsequently consolidated into one lawsuit. More: continued here

A MAN has been arrested over a string of post office robberies in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. More: continued here

The government has published the bill to privatise 30 per cent of the Royal Mail with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary offering a potential olive branch to those within his own party opposed to the plan. More: continued here

Lord Mandelson has published plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, warning that the “future of this network is under threat” without reform. More: continued here

Civil rights stamps available at NAACP fundraiserThe Register-Guard, ORThat’s why Hurley is among 12 civil rights pioneers immortalized in a series of postage stamps released by the US Postal Service in conjunction with the Feb. 12 centennial of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored … More: …

HOUSTON — Houston’s downtown post office is for sale, KPRC Local 2 reported. The United States Postal Service put the 16-acre site on Franklin Street on the market on Wednesday. More: continued here

SATELLITE BEACH — A transposed number on a FedEx package resulted in two men being sent to jail on charges of running a multistate operation selling… More: continued here

RTE.ie Post office raided by masked menThe Press AssociationTwo post office workers are recovering after a robbery in Co Carlow. Two masked men armed with a sledgehammer and knife entered a supermarket on Staplestown Road at around 11am on Thursday and smashed the glass panel of the post office at …

Welfare officials say the demand for food stamps in Massachusetts jumped 20 percent last year, straining the system and trying the patience of some residents applying for the benefit. More: continued here

Contentious plans published on Thursday morning to sell a stake of about 30 per cent in Royal Mail to a private sector rival are the “only credible option” to save the state-owned postal operator, the government asserted, as ministers tried to head off a mounting Labour rebellion. More: continued here