Royal Mail release a set of stamps, featuring six portraits of the Queen, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her coronation. More: continued here
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Royal Mail eyes Sunday deliveries as internet boosts prospectsFinancial TimesRoyal Mail is preparing a move to seven-day-a-week deliveries after privatisation, driven by customer demand for convenient delivery times in the age of amazon and ebay. Extending delivery of letters and parcels to Sundays would achieve the opposite of …Royal Mail sell-off …
Read More »Guardians of Peru’s Treasures Stake Out Post Office to Block Smuggling – New York Times
Guardians of Peru's Treasures Stake Out Post Office to Block SmugglingNew York TimesLast year, the post office team, which Ms. Collatupa joined in August, replacing another archaeologist, made 22 seizures, totaling dozens of items. They included pre-Columbian textiles and pottery, fossils, a 19th-century saber, a 19th-century oil … More: continued …
Read More »The Tebowing Patriots Shirt Hits eBay, And You Want One – SportsGrid
The Tebowing Patriots Shirt Hits eBay, And You Want OneSportsGridHe hasn't officially made the team, but Patriots fans can now celebrate Tim Tebow and Tebowing all with the same stylish shirt, available now for pre-order on eBay. But is this an NFL licensed product? Will Tebow sue? Will the shirts …
Read More »Food stamps: Congress glimpses into the meaning of $4.50 a day – Los Angeles Times
Food stamps: Congress glimpses into the meaning of $4.50 a dayLos Angeles TimesThe House cuts to food stamps would be significant. Some effects include slashing no less than 2 million low-income people from the food stamp program and placing in jeopardy 210,000 school meals for children in low-income families, according …
Read More »FP Passport: For sale on eBay: A vote in Iran’s presidential election – Foreign Policy (blog)
FP Passport: For sale on eBay: A vote in Iran's presidential electionForeign Policy (blog)Just how disillusioned have ordinary Iranians become about Friday's presidential election? Enough for one Iranian to sell his vote on eBay. Iranian authorities have vowed to avoid a repeat of the protests that spilled into Tehran's streets …
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For months now, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) has been championing the cause of combatting hunger in America on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. On Thursday, he gave his 14th End Hunger Now speech to announce that he and some of his colleagues were beginning a SNAP Challenge …
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