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Deadline today for DHHS, Wos to clear food stamps backlogThe Progressive PulseThe N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to meet a federal deadline today to clear backlogged food stamps cases, according to information released before the weekend that the vast majority of the thousands of people waiting …

OTTAWA, Feb. 10, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada Post Corporation (CPC) conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking, which seems to indicate that getting into financial services would be "a win-win strategy" and a "proven money-maker" for the corporation. CPC's research study was stopped cold in the fall of 2013, …

Your Post Office Now Wants to Be Your BankGovExec.comThe post office isn't known as the most efficient or reliable business in America. It can't run its operations at a profit, it's got serious financial troubles, and just try mailing a package on a Saturday without waiting in line for 30 …

An iPhone 5 with Flappy Bird installed has fetched 74 bids on EBay and is currently going for $99,900.         More: continued here

EDITORIAL: Going postal and you can bank on itWashington TimesElizabeth Warren, a full-time Democrat and part-time Indian from Massachusetts, who envisions a post office that could “make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank …Plan could restore …

Evening Standard eBay traders 'are flouting ban on ivory by calling it faux'Evening Standard“It may be that there are people who do not understand the consequences, or who do not understand the law so we are talking to eBay about ways in which they can improve consumer awareness on their …

Flappy Bird iPhone Selling for $650 on eBayIGNEntrepreneurial eBay member 'Pindrus' (96.3% positive feedback) posted the listing hours after Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen took the highly addictive sensation off the OS App Store and Google Play. Somewhat unbelievably, someone has already … More: continued here

Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Bitcoin on eBay, Australian carmakers …QuartzUS same-sex spousal rights. The US Justice Department will expand the rights of same-sex married people “to the greatest possible extent under the law”—including bankruptcies, prison visitation, and the right to not testify against a spouse—even in …and more » More: continued here

Columnist Bill Lohmann writes that the post office in Valentines, Va., known for its iconic Valentine’s Day postmark, could face cutbacks. More: continued here

This Plan Could Save the Post Office From ExtinctionTIMEGo to the post office, send a package, pick up some stamps and deposit your paycheck or pay a bill? That's the newest idea for rescuing the cash-strapped USPS floated in a report published by the U.S.P.S. Office of Inspector General. “One …