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The Great British 'Shake Off': eBay Reveals Brits Most Likely to Shake Up Their Style Following Summer HolidaysPR Newswire UK (press release)Far from having post-holiday blues, Brits are going back to work with far more than their tans this year. A new survey from eBay which examined how people in the UK shop to express…

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The Wall Street Journal says the shippers are aiming to avoid a repeat of last year's delivery debacle. More: continued here

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FedEx's profit more than doubled from the same quarter last year, when it recorded heavy charges related to cost cutting and restructuring. More: continued here

NEW YORK (AP) — When Wall Street collapsed, the paper stopped. Memos, invoices and order forms were left unsent. At package delivery behemoths FedEx and UPS, last fall’s meltdown and the worst recession in a generation has meant a sharp drop-off in the number of documents and packages sent overnight. And it’s not just the…