'Why can't we haveour postbox back?'

ROYAL Mail is refusing to replace a postbox removed from a Stoke-on-Trent street for health and safety reasons – because it keeps getting knocked over by lorries. The company has taken away the pillar box from St John Street, in Hanley, after being called out numerous times to put it …

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Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for eBay – Slate Magazine (blog)

Slate Magazine (blog) Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for eBaySlate Magazine (blog)Reuters reports that eBay is launching a new kind of virtual store that it calls “shoppable windows.” Starting on June 8, the company will put nine-foot-wide touchscreens on the front windows of four shuttered New York City storefronts. The …

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