Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel About 6500 childless adult Mainers to lose food stamps on Jan. 1Kennebec Journal & Morning SentinelAUGUSTA — More than 6,000 Maine residents will lose their food stamps benefits next month under newly enforced rules that require some recipients to have a job, Health and Human …

Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette Obama signs bill naming post office for BurgessChampaign/Urbana News-GazetteWASHINGTON — President Obama has signed legislation naming the Campustown postal service station for James Burgess Jr., the first African-American elected to countywide office in Champaign County. The bill (H.R. 1707) (http://bit.ly/burgessPO) naming … More: continued here

N.J. Antique Shop At Odds With Post Office After Package Delivered DamagedCBS LocalNEPTUNE CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – For more than two decades, an elderly couple in New Jersey has relied on the U.S. Postal Service for their business. But now, their relationship with the post office is broken after an …

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — eBay shares are down 0.7% to $57.13 in trading on Friday after an SEC filing revealed that the online retailer was paying outgoing CEO John Donahoe a $23 million package not to leave the company before it's planned spin off of PayPal. Four of the company's other top …

CNBC EBay CEO to get $23M exit package after PayPal splitCNBCEBay Chief Executive John Donahoe will get an exit package worth an estimated $23 million (14.68 million pounds) after the company splits from payments unit PayPal next year, according to an agreement highlighted in a securities filing on Thursday.EBay Reveals …

SW News Media Yuma post office open Sunday for holiday stragglersYuma SunThe retail lobby located inside the Yuma Main Post Office, 2222 S. 4th Ave., will be open Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to provide “postal customers' holiday shopping and shipping convenience," said Peter Hass of the U.S. …

WPEC Hazmat investigates after post office workers complain of dizzinessPalm Beach PostTwo people at suburban West Palm Beach post office were taken to an area hospital tonight after complaining of dizziness, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said. At about 6:30 p.m., Hazardous materials crews were called to the post office …

“The handwriting is so bad — but at this time of the year you have to smile a little wider.” So says postman Denis McCarthy as he wades through the sea of letters and parcels. More: continued here

Auction service faces investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. More: continued here

TYRONE | A few days after learning his son had been killed in Afghanistan, Kenny Scott knocked on the door of the Tyrone Post Office and asked Post Master Patricia Ingraham to lower the office’s flag in honor of Spc. Christopher Scott. More: continued here