WalesOnline Make Royal Mail a not-for-dividends company, says Peter HainWalesOnlineHe states: The Government badly undersold Royal Mail shares – rewarding private investors at the expense of taxpayers – by selling the public shares in a service it already owns. And privatisation has also placed the proud legacy of the universal …
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EcommerceBytes (blog) eBay Exacerbates Slow Holiday Delivery ProblemEcommerceBytes (blog)Like other retailers and marketplaces, eBay gets aggressive about attracting holiday shoppers with promises of quick delivery – but some sellers said the company went too far and said they weren't sure if it was intentional or a glitch. In late …and …
Read More »Local collector finds rare stamp at Waverly Post Office – Morning Times
Local collector finds rare stamp at Waverly Post OfficeMorning TimesArt Van Riper, owner of the Broad Street Exchange, is one of only four people worldwide to have found a sheet of corrected “inverted Jenny” stamp replicas, which he recently purchased at the Waverly Post Office. Pictured, from left, are Van …
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Listings for tablet computers shot up 25% on auction site eBay onChristmas Day, compared with the day before, as Brits moved quickly to offload unwanted presents. More: continued here
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Santa's wife sells 'Unique' stamp error, customer enjoys best holiday everNorthdallasgazetteMrs. Claus — a.k.a. retail associate Betty Gable — sold him one of only 100 unique stamp sheets produced to replicate the excitement behind finding the most publicized stamp error in U.S. history — the 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp. In …
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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, marks one of the last acts by the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose more than decade-old campaign to ban smoking in various publi… More: continued here
Read More »Postage Stamp Rates Will Increase Again in January – Patch.com
Postage Stamp Rates Will Increase Again in JanuaryPatch.comIf you're someone who uses a lot of stamps, you'll want to start stocking up on Forever stamps before prices rise. On Jan. 26, the cost of a first-class postage stamp will rise to 49 cents from 46 cents, according to the Chicago …
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Read More »Bloomberg Businessweek: Somehow, UPS-Fedex Christmas Snafus Make the … – NewsBusters (blog)
Bloomberg Businessweek: Somehow, UPS-Fedex Christmas Snafus Make the …NewsBusters (blog)Let's be extremely generous and take it as a given that the Post Office didn't have any late arrivals, and that it deserves props for delivering 75,000 packages on Christmas Day. It's hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, but based on …
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