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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 …

In advance of what could be a testy meeting of citizens with postal officials on Monday evening, the Franklin Square Business Association has circulated a petition to save the building. More: continued here

Royal Mail sell-off: Thatcherism lives onNew StatesmanThatcherism lives on well into the new millennium it seems with the news that the government will rush the sale of Royal Mail before postal workers have a chance to strike over the plan. Nothing could be more polarising this week following the now …

Singapore Fund Swoops For Royal Mail StakeSky NewsSky News has learnt that the Government Investment Corporation (GIC) of Singapore has placed an order as part of the £3bn privatisation of Royal Mail, further details of which were announced last week. GIC is one of several sovereign wealth funds which …and more » …