Le Village Historique Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse (VHANE) is expanding with the restoration of a post office and shoe shop built in 1885. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Collection of rare triangular stamps set to fetch thousands at South African …Telegraph.co.ukTufegdzic, who is overseeing the auction on Wednesday, said he expected to see people bidding on the stamps from all over the world. He has hopes of fetching over 800,000 rand (£45,158) for one lot of the …

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Food stamp work requirements should be waived for all Ohio counties …The Plain Dealer – cleveland.comOhio officials have requested a waiver of food stamp work requirements next year for 17 Ohio counties with two-year unemployment rates significantly higher than the national average. Advocates for Ohio's poor called on Gov. John …

Lincolnshire Echo Royal Mail delivers 93 per cent of first class mail on time in LincolnLincolnshire EchoNationally, Royal Mail beat its 93.0 per cent first class mail target with 93.3 per cent of this mail delivered next working day. It also exceeded its second class mail target of 98.5 per …

NFC World 3 Simple Reasons eBay Should Spin Off PayPalMotley FooleBay (NASDAQ: EBAY ) is interested in spinning off PayPal, its rapidly growing payments unit, according to The Information. Activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns roughly 2.5% of the e-commerce giant, has repeatedly advocated just such a spinoff …eBay to …

My eBay MBA: a dozen business lessons from online auctionsIrish TimesAs eBay clearly demonstrates, consumers are sometimes irrational. The data show auctions with an opening bid of 99p get buyers so excited they usually end up bidding the price up more than when the starting bid is higher. Photograph: Justin …

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Fox Still Working To Privatize The Post OfficeNews HoundsFox News' Cashin' In show used the U.S. Postal Service's default on a $5.7 billion payment recently as little more than a pretext to bang the drum of privatization again. Jonathan Hoenig got the privatization ball rolling. “We should follow Europe in …

Pitchi, online video commerce platform, aims to take on eBay, Gumtree, Trading …NEWS.com.au (blog)Well, now a team from Melbourne is trying to monetise video-obsessed Millennials with an eBay-meets-Vine trading platform. Pitchi is an online marketplace similar to eBay, but with a catch: every listing must be accompanied by a video …