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Northamptonshire Telegraph Hundreds of posts delivered at Royal MailNorthamptonshire TelegraphRoyal Mail is launching a drive to recruit hundreds of temporary workers in Northamptonshire this Christmas. The 720 positions will be part of a nationwide drive to recruit up to 21,000 people to sort its festive post, with the temporary staff …

The Royal Mail sorting office in Ipswich is set to close by the summer of 2015, staff have been told. More: continued here

Gov. John Kasich’s administration will limit food stamps for more than 130,000 adults in all but a few economically depressed areas starting Jan. 1. To qualify for benefits, able-bodied adults without children will be required to spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or …

Letter: Lamoille post office closure again fearedElko Daily Free PressEditor: Due to recent new changes the U.S. Postal Service has recently made it is once again feared that the Lamoille post office may, out of financial necessity, need to be closed. Sept. 4, 2013, a meeting of postal customers was …

Kasich wants able-bodied adults to work for food stampsColumbus DispatchFor years, Ohio has taken advantage of a federal waiver exempting food-stamps recipients from the work requirements that Kasich championed while U.S. House Budget Committee chairman during the mid-1990s. Kasich and former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Heath, … More: continued here

Ipswich Star Ipswich: Royal Mail staff in strike threat over sorting office closureIpswich StarA spokeswoman for Royal Mail said that the consultation on the future of the Ipswich sorting office, which started in November last year, was continuing. However the current thinking of the company was that it would start …

Royal Mail has signalled that it is to create around 600 seasonal jobs in Leeds over Christmas to help with the vastly increased amounts of post it handles. More: continued here

EBay Acquiring Decide.comFox Business"ALL THINGS D" REPORTS THAT THE STARTUP USES PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TO HELP CONSUMERS FIGURE OUT WHEN TO BUY AN ITEM. ALL 26 DECIDE EMPLOYEES WILL JOIN eBAY AND BUILD TOOLS TO HELP SELLERS PRICE THEIR … More: continued here

eBay acquires Decide to help shoppers decide what to buy, when to buyPocket-lint.comDecide announced the news on Friday and alerted users that it would completely shut down services on 30 September. The acquisition apparently comes just one year after Decide began experimenting with eBay. According to a notice on Decide's …

Philly.com Abington postal workers accused of identity theftPhilly.comHe looked up the name on the Internet and found a photo that he recognized as the postal employee. All of the alleged victims had used their credit cards at the Abington post office shortly before the unauthorized charges started. Livingood said that …