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EBay To Expand 'Connected Glass'NewsFactor NetworkIn a push to make money in the physical world, not just online, eBay is expanding its 'connected glass' technology. Connected glass touchable screens track shopper behavior in physical stores. Retailers will pay eBay not only a cut of sales generated … More: continued here

Aggressive activist investors in the privatised postal delivery service believe Royal Mail can boost profits with deeper cuts More: continued here

Scotland on Sunday Royal Mail faces strike action as profits rise expected to pose further …This is MoneyUnion bosses, who are due to meet on Monday, have until Wednesday to decide whether to go ahead with a strike over pay and terms, meaning the action could be announced on the …

Is It Time for eBay to Bite the Bullet?DailyFinanceWhen you think about where eBay has been and everything the company has been able to endure, you could argue the company has done amazingly well. eBay wanted to connect buyers and sellers, but the company wasn't alone. Before the Internet bubble …and …

Toronto's First Post Office has created its own day-of-issue covers for the Rush stamp released by Canada Post earlier this year More: continued here

Stamped into historyAlbany Democrat HeraldGeorge Larson flipped through a book and pulled out a piece of history, attached to an envelope with an ornate scrawl, addressed to Tennessee. The 5-cent stamp, featuring a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, is from 1847, and was one of the first stamps… More: continued here

Families supplement food stamps cuts with supplies from food banks, soup …Imperial Valley PressPatterson, like hundreds of other families, is trying to supplement for the recent 5.5 percent cut to the food stamps program. Oct. 31 marked the end of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which granted …

Harry Potter stamps raising an eruptousNWAOnline (subscription)For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met in private, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been advisory, they long …and more » More: continued …

Woman accused of misusing food stampsCitizens VoiceA Wilkes-Barre woman is accused of illegally possessing thousands of dollars worth in food stamps in less than a year. Nichole Patronick, 38, of 231 Gilligan St., was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Martin R. Kane on Thursday. Patronick is … More: continued here

The postal regulator said the recently-privatised company missed a requirement to deliver 93% of all first class letters and warned of fines if targets were not reached More: continued here