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State's Annapolis Post Office purchase to wait a little longerCapitalGazette.comThe Department of General Services is asking the Board of Public Works for more time to settle on its $3.2 million purchase of the Historic Annapolis Post Office on Church Circle. Posted: Monday, July 15, 2013 2:36 pm | Updated: 8:14 …

POSTAL workers in Bridgwater locked in dispute with their Royal Mail bosses will be on strike for three days this week. More: continued here

WinBeta eBay app for Windows 8 updated, now lets you create listings and purchase itemsWinBetaeBay has rolled out an updated version of its eBay app for Windows 8 and Windows RT. In the update, you can now create, edit, and finish listings within the app to sell your item. The …

Royal Mail is a good business but not yet a good investmentMarketing WeekAfter several false starts, one of the last icons of nationalisation, the Royal Mail, is to pass into private hands. Business Secretary Vince Cable announced last week the centuries old postal operator is to finally join British Gas, …

eBay Solicits Auction Listings with Latest Seller PromotionEcommerceByteseBay is running yet another invitation-only promotion, this time for auction listings. Sellers who received the invitation can list up to 800,000 auctions – an unusually high amount – and pay no listing fees. In fact, thanks to the limits that eBay…eBay launches …

Investorplace.com Sex Gel Prompts Post Office EvacuationInvestorplace.comOfficials at the post office didn't know what the gel was and evacuated the office. Officials then called in a hazmat team, reports The Huffington Post. Three women who worked at the post office were admitted to the emergency room for nausea. They were … …

Will Americans Starve Without Food Stamps in the Farm Bill?Heritage.org (blog)The bill did take the important procedural step of separating food stamps from agriculture policy so that each could be considered on its own merits in two distinct bills. The food stamp program would get much-needed attention by being split …

Watch Matt Welch Talk Post Office Privatization on CNBC's The Kudlow Report …Reason (blog)We ship stuff quite often and they are closing our local post office, which is about 2 miles from us. After that, every time we want to ship something, we'll have to drive several extra miles, and …

Royal holdings come under British tax committee's microscopeGlobe and MailTax avoidance is a hot topic in Britain and the government has gone after corporate giants such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks, alleging they have all found ways of not paying tax. On Monday a parliamentary committee took aim at a …

Fixing what ails food stamps: Jennifer StefanoPenn LiveOh, and here's the beauty of the food stamp program. It used to be, when FDR started the program – that people could use the stamps to get the basics – bread, rice, milk. Now, it's a debit card – administered by big …