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FedEx Corp, the world's No. 2 package delivery company, said its freight unit would raise shipping rates by an average 3.9 percent, effective March 31. More: continued here

Bitterwallet Surprise! Royal Mail increases price of stampsBitterwalletWith Royal Mail shares still riding high- investors who got in on the privatisation and still hold shares are now sitting on a profit of around £600- the company is now looking to deliver (arf arf) on its promise of a healthy return …

FedEx to Raise Freight Shipping Rates 3.9% More: continued here

Hackney Citizen Right royal mix-up over dumped mail trolley is sorted after Citizen steps inHackney CitizenStrange goings-on in a Hackney street bear the stamp of a 'dysfunctional' postal service, according to a resident who discovered a Royal Mail trolley mysteriously dumped near his home. Computer programmer Colin Barnett says Royal …

Three ways of serving the underbanked (without the post office)Washington PostOne of the more surprising (that's a euphemism, by the way) ideas of addressing the problem of unbanked and underbanked consumers is the idea of getting the United States Post Office into the banking business (here's the post office's proposal). …

NewsNet5.com Berea Post Office closed as hazmat, bomb squad investigatesNewsNet5.comBEREA, Ohio – The Berea Post Office is currently closed Monday as crews from the hazmat team and bomb squad investigates a situation. Crews were called to the post office on Seminary Street at around 10 a.m. Monday. United States Postal …

Berea Firefighters and their Hazmat team were called out to the Post Office at 26 Seminary Street around 9:30 a.m. Monday. Post Office employees smelled gas and called the Berea Fire Department as a precautionary measure. More: continued here

(Reuters) – FedEx Corp said it will raise shipping rates at its freight business by 3.9 percent, effective March 31. The rate increase is for FedEx Freight shipments within the United States including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Canada and within Mexico. The …

In response to false and misleading information being disseminated by an activist shareholder about the company’s 2009 divestiture of Skype, eBay Inc. today reiterated previously disclosed public information. More: continued here

MAIL may be slowly making way for email, especially among the young, but postage stamps still deliver for the region’s collectors. More: continued here