Toledo Blade Ohio Town Helps Post Office Keep Rudolph PostmarkABC NewsThe most famous postmark of all has been saved, thanks to volunteers in the northwest Ohio village of Rudolph. Thousands of letters flood the village post office every December so that they can be stamped with a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer postmark.Red-letter days return to…
Summit Station residents say that they prefer reducing hours to closing the U.S. Post Office. Find out more. More: continued here
EcommerceBytes (blog) In Kozmo.com's Failure, Lessons for Same-Day DeliveryWall Street Journal (blog)That's a question eBay Inc Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , Amazon.com Inc. and a host of startups will have to answer as they roll out same-day delivery services in cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Seattle. Under eBay's model, known as eBay Now,…
Press-Enterprise Could Same-Day Delivery Save the Post Office?DailyFinanceSadly, the Metro Post idea is too small to fix the problem. Whether Metro Post succeeds or fails as a concept, we're still in for a future of continued postal rate hikes, service cuts, and post office closings. Anyone who tells you different might as …Postal service offers…
NBCNews.com Cory Booker's food stamp challengeWashington Post (blog)Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker (D) will live on the equivalent of food stamps— about $4 per day in New Jersey — for one week starting Tuesday after a Twitter exchange last month over the government's role in the program evolved into a challenge.A food stamp menu for…
The Associated Press Small-bore proposals to help avert fiscal cliffThe Associated PressBut a "fiscal cliff" budget deal could mean pain for nearly everyone else, too: higher airline ticket prices, for example, an end to Saturday mail delivery, fewer food stamps and lower farm subsidies. Each of those changes would make some powerful …and more » More:…
CBC.ca Six Stamps selected for all-star teamCalgary HeraldThe Stamps tied the B.C. Lions and Montreal Alouettes for the most players on the 2012 all-star team. It's the second time since 2000 Calgary has boasted as many as a half-dozen league all-stars. Only the 2010 Stampeders squad, which featured eight …Six Stampeders named CFL all-starsCalgary SunAll-Canadian…
Postcode Gazette MP delivers Christmas encouragement to local postiesPostcode GazetteStocksbridge and Penistone MP Angela Smith visited Royal Mail's Stocksbridge delivery office to pass on best Christmas wishes and encouragement to the postmen and women at their busiest time of year. This year it's even more important than ever to get …and more » More: continued here
ROYAL Mail staff in south Bristol will stage their first strike a week from today. More: continued here
EBay fights sales tax for Internet businessesBowling Green Daily NewsWith talks of going over the fiscal cliff, eBay executives are hoping to stir grass roots discussions about another tax issue. That issue is the potential for Congress to pass legislation that would allow states to require Internet-based businesses to …and more » More: continued here