Sale of Royal Mail database to help boost share price was a big mistake that …This is MoneyThe Government faced yet more criticism for its handling of Royal Mail's privatisation today after MPs said the sale of millions of postcodes and postal addresses could hold back economic growth. The Public …
Read More »Royal Mail wins major local government mail contract in London – Post and Parcel
Royal Mail wins major local government mail contract in LondonPost and ParcelRoyal Mail has provided delivery services for these councils individually before, but this deal sees the local authorities purchasing their mail services together for the first time ever, in order to achieve efficiency savings. Royal Mail secured the … …
Read More »FedEx results to show how much winter hurt whole freight industry, WSJ reports
FedEx reports Q3 earnings this morning, and the Wall Street Journal suggests it will offer a look into how badly this winter hurt the air-express business, but the wider U.S. freight and transportation … More: continued here
Read More »Downtown New Bedford post office’s future discussed – SouthCoastToday.com
Downtown New Bedford post office's future discussedSouthCoastToday.comJoseph J. Mulvey, real estate specialist with the United States Postal Service, addresses New Bedford city councilors and members of the public on the proposed relocation of the New Bedford main post office.MIKE VALERI/The Standard-Times. of 3 clicks … More: continued here
Read More »Mount Vernon Post Office Helps Foil Fake Check Scam
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa – The Mount Vernon Post Office helped foil a scam that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars in fake checks. Over two days in November, the office received 131 express mail envelopes. Some came from the Cornell College mail room; others were dropped off. More: continued here
Read More »Outdoors: Federal duck stamps deserve cheers – Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Outdoors: Federal duck stamps deserve cheersSioux Falls Argus LeaderThe federal duck stamp turned 80 years old earlier this week, but I venture to say it was an event largely unheralded by a good percentage of folks in South Dakota. For those who don't hunt waterfowl or dabble in philately, it …
Read More »eBay Says Icahn Isn’t “Legally Entitled” to Skype Sale Document Demands – Re/code
eBay Says Icahn Isn't "Legally Entitled" to Skype Sale Document DemandsRe/codeIcahn's document requests are an attempt to back up his claims that eBay did not get the best deal possible for Skype, because it sold it to a syndicate of companies that included eBay board member Marc Andreessen's venture capital …
Read More »Could Google-eBay merger be an alternative to PayPal spinoff? – Phoenix Business Journal
Could Google-eBay merger be an alternative to PayPal spinoff?Phoenix Business JournalInvestors Business Daily reports that e-commerce website eBay is under pressure from investor Carl Icahn to spin off its electronic payment service PayPal. In a report Monday, Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian said a merger of Google and … …
Read More »Downtown New Bedford post office's future discussed
NEW BEDFORD — Community leaders and residents spoke out against moving the downtown post office out of a historic 1915 building at a City Council committee meeting Tuesday night. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Viewed as Bellwether of Winter's Toll
As snow and ice storms battered the East Coast this winter, FedEx Corp. was forced to warn its customers four times as often as it did a year earlier that their packages were going to be late due to weather, tracking data show. On Wednesday, when FedEx reports its fiscal …
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