Hell Mail Royal Mail Pension Reforms Begin TodayHell Mail, UK –3 minutes agoRoyal Mail introduces the new 'career average' pension scheme tomorrow – the present scheme is now closed to new entrants as of today, The reforms, … More: continued here

Qtel opens coupon vending machine at head post officeGulf Times, Qatar –4 hours agoQ-Post has set up a vending machine at General Post Office to issue Qtel’s telephone and mobile recharge coupons of different denominations. … More: continued here

Drawing on his experience as a foreign correspondent Mr. Healey mixed straight-up news with social commentary to explore philately in his column, ?Stamps.? More: continued here

Barth Healey, 68, Times Editor and Stamp Columnist, DiesNew York Times, United States –27 minutes agoBy FERNANDA SANTOS Barth Healey, an editor at The New York Times for three decades who also wrote the newspaper’s stamp column from 1988 to 1993, … More: continued here

Gulf Times Q-Post releases ‘perfume’ stampsGulf Times, Qatar –4 hours agoQ-Post yesterday launched its latest version of stamps, which it labelled as “traditional perfume”. The stamps, released in a set of four, each of which … More: continued here

More Americans than ever before expected to receive food stampsMinneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN –31 minutes agoDriven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the … More: continued here

No takers for post office saving planTimes of India, India –57 minutes agoNAGPUR: Common investors seem to be fast discarding the traditional post office savings schemes – which once were the popular mode of parking funds, … More: continued here

WV Paper's Report on Food Stamps: Closer To the Truth than Most of …NewsBusters –4 minutes agoBy Tom Blumer | March 30, 2008 – 22:45 ET In a Wednesday story on food stamp program participation in West Virginia that is still being linked at Drudge … More: continued here

Daily Mail Phone-reliant Britons in the grip of 'nomo-phobia'Independent, UK –3 hours agoStewart Fox-Mills, the head of telephony at the Post Office, which commissioned the survey, said "nomo-phobia" was a real phenomenon for many people. …13m Britons have 'no mobile phobia'MetroMobile phone stressGMTVNomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone …

While Yahoo staves off a takeover bid from Microsoft and Microsoft braces for life after Bill Gates another high-tech pioneer, eBay, is at a digital crossroads. More: continued here