Return to sender: Royal Mail wins back British Gas contract
Royal Mail has won back a multi-million pound contract to deliver post for British Gas, six years after it lost the crucial business to Dutch rival TNT. More: continued here
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The Failure Of The Post Office Shows Why America Is Doomed – Business Insider
Business Insider The Failure Of The Post Office Shows Why America Is DoomedBusiness InsiderTHE United States Postal Service has made a perfectly sensible decision. In light of the move by most Americans to electronic mail and online bill pay, it will no longer deliver the post on Saturdays. The volume of mail has plummeted over…
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Postal Service mulls future of Julian post office – Centre Daily Times
Centre Daily Times Postal Service mulls future of Julian post officeCentre Daily TimesThe Postal Service, which announced Wednesday it's dropping Saturday first-class mail delivery by August to save about $2 billion, might close the Julian post office as part of a cost-saving measure to help the struggling agency survive in the face of … More:…
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TexMessage: Blake Farenthold hails post office plan to ax Saturday mail delivery – Houston Chronicle (blog)
TexMessage: Blake Farenthold hails post office plan to ax Saturday mail deliveryHouston Chronicle (blog)Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, the new chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing the post office, strongly supports the postal service's plan to stop Saturday mail service beginning this August—though it will continue delivering packages … More: continued here
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Mail Call Grows Fainter: Post Office to End Saturday Delivery
In her home at Rogers House in Lebanon, Betty Abbott, 89, talks about the decision of the postal service to no longer deliver mail on Saturday. “The big dogs get paid too much in the Post Office, just like the Congress and Senate and all of them,” she said. More: continued here
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DHEC chief: Restrict food stamps, curb obesity – WBTW – Myrtle Beach and Florence SC
DHEC chief: Restrict food stamps, curb obesityWBTW – Myrtle Beach and Florence SCCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina's public health chief says further restricting what people can buy with food stamps might be a way to cut down on the state's obesity problem. Department of Health and Environmental Control director Catherine …and more » More: continued…
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Congress is adding to post office blues – San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle Congress is adding to post office bluesSan Francisco ChronicleCongress has resisted many of the Postal Service's efforts to generate new sources of revenue or to reduce costs, from raising the price of stamps to shuttering distribution centers and local post offices. Congress has effectively blocked efforts by … More: continued here
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Post Office plans to cut Saturday service
WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service announced plans Wednesday transition to a new delivery schedule during the week of Aug. 5, 2013 that includes package delivery Monday through Saturday, and mail delivery Monday through Friday. More: continued here
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Our view: Do what you must, post office; we’ll adjust – Budgeteer
Our view: Do what you must, post office; we'll adjustBudgeteerThe U.S. Postal Service's plan announced Wednesday to save $2 billion is “a drop in the bucket,” CNN said. But it's something. It's a start with the post office's financial challenges so well-known. And we get it. More people use e-mail; fewer people … More: continued…
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Sort it! Residents say new school should come before building 700 homes on … – Camden New Journal newspapers website
Sort it! Residents say new school should come before building 700 homes on …Camden New Journal newspapers websiteRoyal Mail's current sorting operation will continue at Mount Pleasant although it has now been considerably scaled down due to new technology. A Mount Pleasant Residents Forum has been formed to study the impact of the proposals that…