Gloucester Citizen PETITION TO SAVE POST OFFICEGloucester Citizen, UK –2 hours agoA Campaigner is demanding a community post office remains open – amid fears the closure will cripple the elderly and vulnerable.Podsmead and Kingsholm post…Video: MP calls for people to fight for their post officeHunts PostCouncil joins post office battleNorwich Evening NewsHANDS …

APTOS — After a weekend of hard riding at the Sea Otter Classic, BMX riders from all over enjoyed a BMX version of an after party at the Aptos homemade dirt track known as the Post Office Jumps. More: continued here

NY1 Queens Residents Protest Poor Post Office ServiceNY1, NY –2 minutes agoSome Queens residents say their local post office is hardly ever right or on time when it comes to delivering their mail. For some residents in Far Rockaway … More: continued here

News & Star Protest rally at Post Office’s closure planNews & Star, UK –1 hour agoBy Dave Gudgeon YOUNG and old braved the cold to fight the planned closure of Carlisle’s Botcherby post office. The protest rally was organised by the … More: continued here

THE UK’s second biggest bank has confirmed it is considering plans to ask shareholders for billions of pounds in extra funding. More: continued here

Deposits in Kisan Vikas Patras decline by 20 per centTrading Markets (press release), CA –8 hours ago"The deposits in Post Office Small Savings Scheme are in a decreasing trend," Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Jyotiraditya M … More: continued here

eBay names Andrew Sloss Country Manager for CanadaCanada NewsWire (press release), Canada –2 minutes agoNow in his sixth year at eBay Canada, Sloss will be responsible for all of eBay Canada's operations including marketing and communications, finance, … More: continued here

Scientific American is running a major article on Science 2.0, or the use of Web 2.0 applications and techniques by scientists to collaborate and publish in new ways. “Under [the] radically transparent ‘open notebook’ approach, everything goes online: experimental protocols, successful outcomes, failed attempts, even discussions of papers being prepared …

Post office closures are ‘sick joke’Wimbledon Guardian, UK –5 hours agoAs far as closing local post offices goes, how unfair is this? It is a sick joke. I am lucky. Even though I am not able to visit a post office, … More: continued here

ASHTABULA — If you’ve been planning to apply for a U.S. passport, it’ll be pretty easy to do it on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ashtabula Post Office’s Passport Fair. More: continued here