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 7.8% of the company which…
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 here
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 … More: continued here
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 » More: continued here
James Farley Post Office delivers as event spaceamNYLong gone are the days when the James Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue was the gatekeeper for processing roughly 90% of U.S. mail. Now, machinery rumbles far below its floors, constructing train tracks in the $267 million first phase of its … More: continued here
Workers in hundreds of Crown post offices will today stage a fresh strike in a long-running row over jobs, pay and closures. The Communication Workers Union in England deputy general secretary Dave Ward said post workers were striking today due to the "reckless attitude of the post office". More: continued here
Photo credit: Models walk a runway at Skylight at Moynihan Station. Long gone are the days when the James Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue was the gatekeeper for processing roughly 90% of U.S. mail. More: continued here
An apartment attached to the Kitts Hill Post Office caught fire just before 2:00 p.m. More: continued here