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Sellers React to eBay Changes in Fall Seller ReleaseEcommerceBytesReaction to eBay's Fall Seller Release changes announced in July provoked a flurry of negative comments on discussion boards in the US and the UK, although some comments were also positive about the changes to expanded feedback removal policies … More: continued here

The government has missed a trick by failing to recognise the importance of post offices. Now it must act on the BERR's advice Two reports this week show a path to a government interested, rightly, in its own popularity. One was the select committee report on the future of the …

Food stamps facing slight cutsJacksonville Journal CourierFood stamps are being scaled back slightly, but the average familial recipients in Illinois, one parent and one child, will still receive $347 a month from the government for groceries. “Beginning in November, the maximum 2 person allotment will … More: continued here

Police Blotter: Foster City police investigate thefts from two Post Office boxesSan Jose Mercury NewsLOS GATOS. More Avenue, 9:35 a.m. Monday A theft at a construction site was reported. 15951 Los Gatos Blvd., 11:45 a.m. Monday A business was burglarized. 200 block of Winchester Circle, 1:07 p.m. Monday Someone entered …

Yahoo! Canada Sports Irishman Conor McGregor has gone from food stamps to Dana White's stamp of …Yahoo! Canada SportsHe's a guy who literally needed food stamps to eat until April 6, when he made his UFC debut on a Fuel card in Sweden and earned a $60,000 Knockout of the …

New York Times (blog) Unemployed? No Food Stamps for YouNew York Times (blog)In June, the Republican plan to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year led to the failure of the farm bill—because House conservatives wanted even bigger cuts. House leaders then revived the bill to provide $196 billion …

Roll Call Time to take a bite out of food stamps?High Plains JournalThe Republican-led House has severed food stamp policy from farm legislation, its longtime safe harbor. A group of GOP lawmakers is planning a separate food stamp bill that would cut the program by as much as 5 percent, …

ED GOLDMAN: There's something about this post officeSacramento Business Journal (blog)Last week, I went to pick up my mail from the post office box I've rented there for a number of years and found I'd received none. I dutifully waited in line to ask a clerk about it. She was …

As word spread of the U. S. Post Office Department plans to sell the Berkeley post office building, public protest has become ever more vehement. Ying Lee is on the steering committee of the group of concerned citizens called Save Our Berkeley Post Office . More: continued here

Postal service, which operates on sales of stamps, last had profit in 2006 and …PolitiFactSuggesting the service isn't broke, Hightower declared: "Since 1971, the postal service has not taken a dime from taxpayers. All of its operations…are paid for by sales of stamps and related products. The Postal Service makes …