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 …

Los Angeles Times Onlive services deliver mail without the paperLos Angeles Times, CABy Alana Semuels The post office doesn't deliver mail to Steven Stark's Santa Maria home anymore. It's not that Stark, the 36-year-old owner of an Internet company, is unpopular. He just decided that he'd rather deal with all of …

EBay Offers 3-Year Guidance—If Economy RecoversCNBC, Englewood CliffsAt a time when so many companies are dispensing with meaningful guidance of any kind, eBay is taking the unusual step of offering guidance 3 years out. Not specific, quarter-to-quarter numbers, mind you, but signposts investors can use to gauge the … More: continued …

Is eBay Ready To Start The Bidding For Skype?BusinessWeekAt its annual meeting today, eBay executives broke out more details about the health of its Skype unit than it has in the past. Turns out the Net phone calling software pioneer enjoyed 20% net income last year, on $550 million in …

EBay Outlines Three-Year Revival PlanBusinessWeekExecutives at eBay (EBAY) are making a concerted effort to keep their company off the list. In Mar. 11 presentations for Wall Street analysts at the company's San Jose (Calif.) headquarters, eBay executives detailed plans to increase revenue in the … More: continued here

Washington Informer New Food Stamp Act to Aid in Decreasing DC HungerWashington Informer, Washington DCOn Thursday, Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At-Large) and colleagues introduced the new Food Stamp Expansion Bill to address the growing crisis. Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and officials from DC Departments of Human Services and … …

Telegraph.co.uk When coping with loss beats winning petty pointsguardian.co.uk, UKAnd that turned out to be Labour-on-Labour violence, as Geraldine Smith rose to demand that the government drop the plan to sell off part of Royal Mail, which she called "unwanted and unnecessary". Gordon Brown replied with his new strategy, …Video: Brown: …

Anger over removal of royal mail adThe Press AssociationThe postal workers union has claimed it was being "gagged" after adverts it paid for as part of its campaign against part-privatisation of the Royal Mail were suddenly taken down. The Communication Workers Union bought space for adverts to appear at …Stop …

eBay Kills Dutch Auctions, Sticks With Fxed-Price ListingsECommerce-Guide, United StatesBy Vangie Beal eBay has formally announced that it will discontinue the Dutch auction format on the site. The company says that this listing format in which sellers offer multiple-quantity items for sale in one Auction-style listing is little-used on …eBay Runs …