Mississippi post offices sell most breast cancer research stamps in nationJackson Clarion LedgerThe Mississippi District of the postal service – with more than 400 participating locations – sold more than one million sheets of the stamps, raising more than $568,000. The Gulfport office raised the second highest in the nation, …
Read More »Major Food Stamp Cuts In Ventura County Will Affect 70000 People – Huffington Post
Major Food Stamp Cuts In Ventura County Will Affect 70000 PeopleHuffington PostAbout 70,000 Ventura County residents have been told that their food stamp benefits will decline starting Friday. The decrease marks the first time officials can recall an across-the-board cut in the program, which has grown dramatically in recent … …
Read More »eBay apologizes for auctioning off Holocaust items – New York Daily News
New York Daily News eBay apologizes for auctioning off Holocaust itemsNew York Daily NewsHolocaust survivors were horrified that ghoulish death camp relics were being hawked on eBay. “It's outrageous,” said Hillel Himmel, 86, who suffered for months in the Budzyn concentration camp in Poland in 1942. “To make money out …
Read More »Scarsdale Post Office Hosting Passport Fair On Election Day – The Daily Voice
Scarsdale Post Office Hosting Passport Fair On Election DayThe Daily VoiceSCARSDALE, N.Y. — The Scarsdale Post Office is hosting a special Passport Fair on Election Day. The Passport Fair is set to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, at the post office, at 29 Chase Road, according to …
Read More »Sponsored post: Democratizing data across the organization at eBay – GigaOM
Sponsored post: Democratizing data across the organization at eBayGigaOMLocked inside those trillions of rows were insights that eBay knew could drive innovation within the organization. The problem: how to open the flood gates without drowning the 26,000 users and analysts inside the company that were eager to leverage … More: …
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A BOOK of stamps may only cost a couple of dollars, but for some esteemed collectors purchasing a solitary stamp the price tag can extend into the four figures. More: continued here
Read More »Santa Claus Post Office Announces Holiday Postmark – NBC Chicago
Santa Claus Post Office Announces Holiday PostmarkNBC ChicagoPostmaster Marian Balbach said the post office branch in Santa Claus usually receives about 13,000 pieces of mail a month, but each December it receives about 400,000 pieces. Santa Claus is a town about 35 miles northeast of Evansville. There is no …and more » …
Read More »Post office lease expected to continue at $1 annually – UT The Daily Texan
Post office lease expected to continue at $1 annuallyUT The Daily TexanThe public service lease that the on-campus United States Postal Service operates under, initially set to expire in September, was extended through February of next year to give involved parties time to work out the details of the office's …
Read More »Food stamps cut from $500 to $16 for single mother of 4 – KHOU
Food stamps cut from $500 to $16 for single mother of 4KHOUCHARLOTTE, NC – Families count on every penny they get from the federal food stamp program, changes to the program mean reductions in household budgets, but not many are like the one found in west Charlotte. We are digging …
Read More »Royal Mail privatisation could cause Post Office closures by stealth, report warns – Herald Scotland
Royal Mail privatisation could cause Post Office closures by stealth, report warnsHerald ScotlandNatan Doron, senior researcher at the Fabian Society, said: "The Government has repeatedly insisted that the future of the Post Office network is separate from the debate about the privatisation of Royal Mail, but this argument does not …
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