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Gridlock in Congress Leads to 3-Cent Hike in Postal StampsRoll Call (blog)While the spending and debt deadlines move inexorably closer with no deals in sight, Congress is getting a stark reminder about the consequences (and cost) of its gridlock for everyday Americans. The U.S. Postal Service proposed a 3-cent increase …

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Gold iPhone 5S sells for $10K on eBay, worth just $649CNETThat's how much one eBay buyer paid for a 16GB unlocked iPhone 5S in gold, a device that's currently back-ordered into next month. The US-based seller "Papakar" put the device up for sale Sunday afternoon. It proceeded to get 51 …

eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) made headlines yesterday with a new "click-and-collect" partnership with U.K…( Read More ) More: continued here

The U.S. Postal Service proposed a three-cent increase to the price of first-class stamps Wednesday, citing continuing financial woes, the Associated Press reports. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told a Senate committee this month that his agency is in “the midst of a financial disaster” and may need an emergency increase …

Parcels deliver Royal Mail's futureCITY A.M.THE PRIVATISATION of Royal Mail started to become a likely event in May this year after the restructured group posted profits of £403m, up from £152m the previous year. “When we saw that profit margins had gone from around one per cent to 4.4 per …

Man buys Aripeka post office; wants mail restoredSuncoast NewsARIPEKA — Lifelong Aripeka resident Carl Norfleet has purchased the town's post office building in an effort to bring mail service back to the rural northeast Pasco community. The U.S. Postal Service vacated the 50-year-old building on Sept. 13 when … More: …

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13WHAM-TV Postal service proposes 3-cent rate hike for stampsUSA TODAYFirst-class postage stamps could rise to 49 cents starting in 2014 under a Wednesday proposal by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service. The increase would raise about $2 billion in additional revenue a year. Under the plan, first-class mail postage …Postal Service …

Workers in hundreds of Crown post offices are to stage a fresh strike in a long-running row over jobs, pay and closures. More: continued here