The SA Post Office plans to spend R50m on security in an effort to improve its mail delivery rate from 93% to 95% in the next year. More: continued here

As people around the world ditch snail mail for new technologies like e-mails and cell phones to communicate, more and more South Africans seem to prefer the old fashion way of sending letters through the post office. More: continued here

Postal workers to protest at Labour Party conferenceSocialistworker.co.uk, UK –37 minutes agoBy "liberalising" the postal industry, the government has allowed a swathe of private firms to collect and sort bulk mail, while forcing Royal Mail to …Support grows for Stop the War protest in ManchesterSocialistworker.co.ukall 2 news articles More: continued here

eBay France announces new fee tariffTameBay, UK –4 hours agoby Sue Bailey eBay France is the latest site to announce a new fee schedule designed to “make selling on eBay less risky”. They follow the general pattern … More: continued here

A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of a million bank customers. More: continued here

An investigation has been launched into how a computer holding personal details of high street bank customers was sold on eBay for £35. Information including the bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers’ maiden names and signatures of 1 million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland …

BERKS COUNTY, Pa. — A Berks County fire company made a money-saving find on eBay. The Mount Penn fire company was in need of a new fire truck, but found the cost of a new one would be more than $800,000. More: continued here

A Government investigation was launched today after personal details of more than a million bank customers were found on a computer sold on eBay. More: continued here

Million bank details sold on eBayRegister, UK –4 hours agoBy John Oates → More by this author A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just £35. … More: continued here

This is the scene after thieves ram-raided Royal jewellers Mappin & Webb in a Vauxhall Vectra. More: continued here