By Nour Abuzant A senior employee at the Ministry of Finance has been charged with violation of trust and embezzlement of QR15.387mn, the value of revenue stamps issued by Q-Post, during 1998-2004. More: continued here

Green Stamps: Lick'em and Stick'emCape Cod Today, MA –4 minutes agoAsa boy growing up in the 40s and 50s in northern New Hampshire, one of my jobs in the family was sticking what we called "Green Stamps" into blank booklets … More: continued here

Envisaged as secondary characters for a single cartoon album, the blue gnomes widely known as the Smurfs will celebrate their 50th anniversary this year with a movie deal and an invasion of new female characters. More: continued here

Govt likely to introduce personalised postage stampsEconomic Times, India –5 hours agoThe department of posts is mulling the possibility of introducing personalised postage stamps bearing photographs of people at standard domestic postal … More: continued here

The Postal and Telecommunications Union has called for a government inquiry into Australia Post following revelations that a NSW Central Coast post office is being run out of a pub. More: continued here

Kids produce stamps to mark 60th independence anniversaryJerusalem Post, Israel –5 hours agoBy JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Three stamp designs by four elementary school children have been chosen among tens of thousands to create official stamps in honor … More: continued here

NEWARK, N.J. – The PGA Tour has decided to move the Barclays, the first leg in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, from Westchester Country Club in New York. More: continued here

Didn’t get a chance to post this due to CES shenanigans, so here’s the news in case you missed it: Microsoft, reacting to criticism over its removal (or hiding, anyway) of support for old file formats in Office 2003, has made it significantly easier for you to restore this functionality …

Alleged eBay scammer sentencedBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT –1 hour agoJenny Donahue, aka Jenny Bryant, 28, of Williamstown and Northfield, avoided jail time Thursday on a federal fraud conviction for operating an eBay scam … More: continued here

A UNION has called for a government inquiry into Australia Post following revelations that a NSW Central Coast post office is being run out of a pub. More: continued here