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Post Office Seeks 3-Cent Stamp IncreaseCBS LocalWASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The financially strapped Postal Service is asking for a 3-cent increase in the price of a first class stamp, raising it to 49 cents. The chairman of the postal Board of Governors, Mickey Barnett, warned the agency is in a …

Royal Mail promises 200 new jobs with Parcelforce depot opening at BecktonNewham RecorderThe massive 100,000sq ft Parcelforce site at Beckton, just off the A13, is part of Royal Mail's UK-wide expansion programme and is expected to create 200 jobs over the next three years. It is part of Royal Mail's …

The USPS proposed a 3-cent hike in first-class stamps and is paying someone $565K to study stamps' future. More: continued here

WASHINGTON — It soon could cost 49 cents to mail a letter. The postal Board of Governors said Wednesday it wants to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 3 cents, citing the agency’s “precarious financial condition” and the uncertain prospects for postal overhaul legislation in Congress. More: continued …

Student food stamp use doubled over 10 yearsUSA TODAYBenjamin Olson, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, credits the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — often called food stamps— with his ability to graduate on time after transferring from a …and more » More: continued here

Royal Mail Group Ltd., the 360- year-old U.K. postal service, may be valued at as much as 4.3 billion pounds ($6.9 billion) when it goes public, said people briefed on the estimates. More: continued here

U.S. Postal Service cites "precarious financial condition," uncertain prospects of overhaul legislation in requesting stamp-price increase More: continued here

On the same day it hired a reseearcher to determine the future of postage stamps, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service plans to raise the cost of mailing a letter in the United States by 3 cents, to 49 cents, in January, the agency announced on Wednesday.         …

The Guardian Labour conference votes to renationalise railways and Royal MailThe GuardianLabour opposes the coalition's plans for floating most of Royal Mail on the stock market, and Ian Murray, the shadow postal affairs minister, is attempting a last-minute bid to halt the privatisation with a vote in parliament. However, the …

In a further sign of the party lurching to the left, the Labour conference voted to demand the renationalisation of train firms and postal deliveries. More: continued here