PEOPLE WATCHING: Meet Hope Romero, of Los Gatos Post OfficeSan Jose Mercury News,  USA –3 minutes agoBy Shannon Burkey Occupation: I'm a window clerk at the Los Gatos Post Office and I've been here for 20 years. I'm also a postal ambassador. … More: continued here

A special passport processing day will be held Saturday at Little Rock’s main post office. Photos will be taken onsite; the photo fee is $15 for a set of 2 identical photos. More: continued here

Longer auctions hit the hardest Online auctioneer eBay has outlined massive changes to its pricing structure. Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees have been altered, which will affect all eBay sellers. Users selling items under £15 are worse off under the new pricing, as eBay appears to be promoting high-value …

Rare 3.69 carat ruby sold for Rs. 8 lakhs on eBayPR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria –1 hour agoMumbai, August, 2008: Mr. Arvind Juneja, a Jaipur resident & an eBay India seller, had listed a rare intense red 3.69 carat ruby on eBay India (www.ebay.in) … More: continued here

Stamps to be assessedOtago Daily Times, New Zealand –3 hours agoBy Allison Rudd on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 Otago Museum director of collections, research and property services Dave Wright examines New Zealand stamps dating back … More: continued here

State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is committed to bringing the state of Illinois into the 21st century. His latest step toward modernizing the state was to make the auctioning of unclaimed property on eBay a permanent initiative. Beginning in August of 2007 the state began to place unclaimed items from safe …

A public meeting about the planned closure of Mannofield Post Office is to be held at the Palm Court Hotel, Seafield Road, Aberdeen, at 6pm on Tuesday [26 August]. 2008/08/22 00:00:00 More: continued here

An Allen man has been sentenced to two years in prison for printing fake postage stamps to mail stolen products, according to federal court records. More: continued here

FedEx Freight has been awarded a $33,333 job training grant by the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the state announced Friday. (FDX) More: continued here

Atlanta-based WorthPoint has signed a letter of intent to acquire Ohio-based GoAntiques, an online network for buying and selling antiques and collectibles that has 350,000 registered members and nearly a million visits and thousands of transactions each month. GoAntiques also told users this week it would launch its own auction …