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Examiner.com Record food stamp enrollment defines ThanksgivingExaminer.comA record number of Americans – nearly 50 million – will be using food stamps this year to buy turkeys, cranberry sauce and stuffing for their Thanksgiving dinners. The government shells out around $78 billion annually for food stamps, tying in with …More Americans …

Vibe Mayor Cory Booker Goes On Food StampsVibeMayor on food stamps – that's probably a first. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has been a Twitter fiend recently, and after getting into an argument on social media with an ardent opponent of the Supplemental Food Assistance Program, or SNAP, Booker says he …

Post Offices handed a safe futureReading ChronicleMahesh Patel, who runs the Whitley Wood post office and is Reading secretary of the National Federation of SubPostmasters, said: "Without it I think we would've had to shut all the post offices down because most of the higher earning branches are …MP pleased …

Apple reportedly testing official eBay outlet for refurbished iDevicesITProPortalThe retail giant has been hiding behind the username "refurbished_outlet" on eBay since 1 October, according to 9to5Mac, selling iPads, MacBooks, and iPods for discounted prices. "We thought Apple might be testing the waters to sell refurbished … More: continued here

Cory Booker to Live Off Food StampsNewserAfter a Twitter user told him that "nutrition is not the responsibility of the government," their back-and-forth resulted in a challenge from Booker: "Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family …

Gretawire (blog) Newark Mayor Booker says he will live on food stamps for at least a week after …Fox NewsNewark Mayor Cory Booker says he plans on living on food stamps for at least a week after being challenged to do so by a user on Twitter. The challenge arose …

UK Mail profits up 25%, with customers won from Royal MailPost and ParcelUK Mail Group appears to have benefited greatly from Royal Mail's price increases this year in boosting its mail revenues and taking customers from the universal service provider. Royal Mail hiked business mail rates by 11% and retail …

New technologies key to Postal Service revitalizationFederalNewsRadio.comThe agency's mobile app allows customers to find the closest post office, order supplies and submit requests for their mail to be held while they're out of town. And, Burgoyne said, the agency is working to deploy tablets to post office clerks so they …

Congress undermined the financial stability of the Postal Service six years ago, and it can easily repair the damage. More: continued here

Artists Restore Depression-Era Image In Paoli Post Office LobbyWBIW.comRoger Moon, of the Times-Mail reports, visitors to the post office can see not only a more vibrant image on the lobby's wall, but, throughout this month, can also see an art exhibit called "Local Treasure: Indiana's Post Office Murals." The exhibit …