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The post office wants to raise the price of a stamp to 49 cents. […] well, anytime the post office bumps prices, readers talk on social media. 49 cents to mail a letter coast to coast? Can we please allow a private company or two to compete with the post …

This is Plymouth Union slams city MPs and prepares for picket over Royal Mail privatisationThis is PlymouthA UNION that slammed city MPs for "avoiding debate" on the future of Royal Mail voted unanimously to picket outside their offices. Officials of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) branded city MPs Oliver Colvile …

Chattanooga Times Free Press Post office goes small: Kiosk-type post offices springing up to replace …Chattanooga Times Free PressA Village Post Office, or VPO, might be found in convenience stores, gas stations, local businesses, libraries and inside other government agencies. They are operated by management of the location, postal officials …

VIDEO: 'Behind the Scenes' … at the post officeGwinnettdailypost.comIn this week's 'Behind the Scenes' segment, we give you an inside look at the United States Post Office in Lawrenceville. The location on Patterson Road is among four offices in Lawrenceville. The facility has 20 city mail carriers and 18 rural …

IPR researcher knocks GOP on food stamps voteDaily Northwestern (blog)A Northwestern researcher is pushing back against the House of Representatives' vote to cut $40 billion from food stamps— and she says she has the data to prove her point. The House voted Sept. 19 to cut funding by $40 billion …

Historical Firestone post office artifacts survive Boulder floodLongmont Daily Times-CallFIRESTONE — An offer to return the trappings of the old Firestone post office almost got lost in the mail. Back in February, Erie resident Joe Bertron wrote the town with an offer. His mother, Clemmie, had been Firestone's postmistress for …

euronews TNT Post expands rival UK delivery service to Royal MailReuters UKTNT Post, owned by Dutch mail group PostNL, wants to establish a nationwide delivery network by 2015, providing Royal Mail with competition on the last leg of deliveries for the first time in its centuries of service. The Dutch …

The Guardian Royal Mail shares: the what, when and whether you shouldThe GuardianUp to 70% of Royal Mail will be sold off. There is a "base offer" of 40.1%-52.2% of shares in the company being made available to big City investors and private individuals, plus extra shares worth up to …

Santa Clara residents are pushing back against a proposal to close Santa Clara’s historic downtown post office, part of the U.S. Postal Service’s effort to cut costs, and move services to a building 2 miles away. More: continued here

Asia: A New Market For The Stamp SavvyChina Digital TimesLike so much of the global economy these days, the center of the world's multibillion-dollar stamp-collecting market is shifting east. Auction houses are sprouting up in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing, and rich collectors are catching the bug … More: continued …