“I am optimistic about the new year,” he said. “We are looking at playing four games in January before provincials. We are positive that we can use those games to tune up our players and I can work with my lines and see who we have.” More: continued here

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FedEx Corp. says its new hub at Piedmont Triad International Airport won’t open until next fall, and it will start operations with fewer workers than initially projected. More: continued here

Post Office can thrive as a people’s bankTimes Online, UK –1 hour agoAt least 100 Labour MPs will mobilise against any form of Post Office privatisation. The Labour whips are very uneasy about the prospects of having to …MPs to rebel over sale of Royal MailIndependentRebel MPs up pressure on Lord Mandelson …

Retail counters at most northern Illinois post offices will close at 3 p.m. Wednesday and Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the US Postal Service. All offices will be closed Thursday. More: continued here

The Post Office has enlisted sevenyearold children to help them explain financial terms to their customers. More: continued here

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Terry Beauchamp, a general clerk with the U.S. Postal Service, sorts mail at the post offic in Laramie. Andy Carpenean/Boomerang photographer Despite having fewer packages to deliver during this Christmas season, the U.S. Post Office in Laramie still kept very busy this year with an increased number of overnight delivery …

FedEx spokesman Jim McCluskey says the company initially planned to hire six to seven hundred people for sorting operations. More: continued here

FedEx announces that it will delay the opening of a planned hub in Greensboro, threatening hundreds of new jobs that were supposed to arrive next spring. More: continued here