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Reduced post office hours have stopped an almost 30-year holiday tradition in Joy, Ill. The Joy Post Office had been offering a special holiday postal cancellation during December since 1985, but not this year. More: continued here

Gadgets are among the top-selling items on eBay over the holidays, according to the site. Continue reading → More: continued here

New York Times In Mississippi, a Divide on Farm Aid and Food StampsNew York TimesBELZONI, Miss. — Thomas Bond, a cotton grower whose onetime 8,500-acre partnership of farms received $4 million in federal subsidies in the last seven years, thinks that many residents in the surrounding Mississippi Delta need food …

Royal Mail share price: Company agrees 9% pay deal for workersiNVEZZiNVEZZ.com, Tuesday, December 10: Royal Mail Group (LON:RMG) has secured a "ground-breaking" pay and conditions deal with labour unions to prevent its workforce walking out over the busy festive period. Britain's newly privatised postal service had … More: continued here

Yahoo News (blog) $450 metal Starbucks cards selling for $2500 on eBayLos Angeles TimesPeople are going cray-cray for the $450 all-metal Starbucks cards on eBay. The cards, which come preloaded with $400 worth of Starbucks credit and automatically elevate your "My Starbucks Rewards" account to "gold-level status" are selling on …

Consumer advocate Nader says the U.S. Postal Service should solicit residential customers to join a consumer action group to help keep post offices afloat with annual dues and creative ideas More: continued here

HEXUS Teen fooled by eBay scam is given a real Xbox One for freeHEXUSNineteen year old Peter Caltworthy from Nottingham was shocked when he received a picture of an Xbox One instead of the actual console, after forking out £450 following a 'successful' bid on eBay. The auction was entitled …

But will a transactions-per-kWh metric work for everyone? Computerworld – LAS VEGAS — IT managers facing the task of explaining the business value of IT to the C-suite don't necessarily have an easy time of it. More: continued here

E! Online Kim Kardashian Defends Her Charity Work and eBay Auction to Help the …E! OnlineKim Kardashian is fighting back against haters who criticize her charitable ways. The E! star, who recently donated 10 percent of the proceeds she made in an online eBay auction to help with typhoon relief …

New York Daily News Peterson: Food stamp deal in place, farm bill framework could come this weekMinnPost.comWASHINGTON — Lawmakers negotiating the terms of a new five-year farm bill have agreed to the size of the bill's cut to the food stamps program, one of the major sticking points between the …