BBC News eBay and an email scamBBC NewsThe latest example involved eBay, which has been fighting a long and only partially successful campaign against fraudsters who have damaged the reputation of the auction site as a safe place to do business. For several years now I have been running an …and …

Royal Mail due to report first-half figuresIGOn Wednesday 19 November, ahead of a busy Christmas period, Royal Mail is due to post its first-half figures. Markets are expecting the company's adjusted earnings per share to have increased from 9.5p up to 14.8p. Sales are called a little softer … More: …

RocketNews24 Special 2015 New Year's stamp shows adorable sheep completing a 12-year …RocketNews24Next year is the year of the sheep (or goat, depending on who you ask), and the Japanese postal service has revealed their special postcard stamps featuring an adorable four-legged wool giver just for the occasion. However, eagle-eyed …

New York Daily News SEE IT: Australian 'Santa' enters Melbourne post office, demands cashNew York Daily NewsBad Santa! Father Christmas has been caught on camera robbing an Australian post office. A man dressed as Saint Nick stole cash from the Snell Grove store in Oak Park, Melbourne, at 11:30 a.m. …

ABC News Welcome. Atari's New Mexico Landfill Cartridges Rake in $37000 on eBay – IGNIGNA hundred of the 1,300 Atari cartridges unearthed from a New Mexico landfill in April were put up for auction on eBay earlier this month, with an E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial cartridge in its original box attracting …

Telegraph.co.uk h: Post Office unveils its first Christmas advert for yearsTelegraph.co.ukCreated by London-based agency FCB Inferno, the multi-million pound campaign will attempt to remind people that the Post Office can be important to local communities. “Christmas adverts have become an event in recent years. Consumers are really …Watch: The Post Office's …

Stepping on the Christmas bandwagon, the Post Office's own multimillion pound advert features Downton Abbey and Peep Show stars More: continued here

WRGB Group asks people to try a week on food stampsWRGBParticipants live on what they would get for food if they were enrolled in the 3SquaresVT program, formerly referred to as food stamps. Organizers say participants will try living on a food budget of about $36 per individual per week, …

The “heart and soul” of a Suffolk village is under threat due to “ridiculous” proposals to close the Post Office and provide services at Woolpit’s Co-op branch instead. More: continued here

Royal Mail left in the cold as operating profits predicated to fall by 8% to …This is MoneyRoyal Mail is expected to report lower half-year earnings this week as its delivery operations come under pressure at home and in Europe. Operating profits before transformation costs are forecast to be down …