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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 …

Royal Mail PLC : Labour urged: reverse Royal Mail sell-off4-traders (press release)AFUTURE Labour Government should reverse Royal Mail privatisation by turning the postal service into a not-for-dividends company, according to former Welsh Secretary Peter Hain . Mr Hain , who before becaming MP for Neath in 1991 was head of … …

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

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 …

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

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 …

FedEx has been accused by New York City of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy by shipping tons of untaxed cigarettes. More: continued here

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 …

Sayre man lands 'corrected' 1918 stamps in WaverlyElmira Star-GazetteInverted Jenny? postage stamp is shown. The original 1918 stamp was printed with the upside-down bi-plane by mistake. The ?mistake? was reissued by the USPS along with a limited run of corrected stamps in 2013 as a way to bring more people …

New York City has sued FedEx Corp, accusing the package delivery company of illegally delivering millions of contraband cigarettes to people's homes, violating a 2006 settlement.         More: continued here