FedEx Corp. (FDX) projected a 13 percent gain in shipments during the peak season between the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and Christmas, driven by less-expensive services that are popular with online retailers. More: continued here
Read More »This Scrappy Startup Has Beaten PayPal To The Cash Market (EBAY) – San Francisco Chronicle
This Scrappy Startup Has Beaten PayPal To The Cash Market (EBAY)San Francisco ChronicleBut eBay's online-payments business has been beaten to the draw by a startup, PayNearMe, which is already letting consumers buy online with cash. Both PayPal and PayNearMe are tackling a huge slice of the payments market that hasn't …
Read More »Food Stamp Bashing, Race, and the Bi-Partisan Attack on the Safety-Net – The Indypendent
Food Stamp Bashing, Race, and the Bi-Partisan Attack on the Safety-NetThe IndypendentIt's at first a little perplexing why Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are the only ones to talk explicitly about poverty in recent debates. The two of them mentioned poverty and low-income and poor people about 18 times in …
Read More »Football: Marcus Stamps leads a surging Jefferson
Los Angeles Jefferson started the year 0-3, but the Democrats have won five consecutive games behind running back Marcus Stamps and will play Fremont on Friday night for the Southern League championship at Angelou High School. Stamps, who is committed… More: continued here
Read More »Workshop highlights post office – Cambridge Times
Workshop highlights post officeCambridge TimesAs the ink dries on the city's deal to purchase the Galt Post Office, Heritage Cambridge is hosting a workshop Saturday which focuses on architecture and the landmark post office. Working with Marc Boileau, author of Towers of Time, which features the … More: continued here
Read More »Passaic post office bomb scare declared a false alarm
A bomb threat written on a counter at the post office – which prompted authorities to evacuate the building, close nearby streets and call in a bomb-search team — turned out to be a false alarm, police said. More: continued here
Read More »Kirkland police respond to suspicious package at Post Office; scuba equipment to blame
Kirkland Fire and Police responded to a report of a suspicious package at the Kirkland Post Office Monday morning. More: continued here
Read More »It was hissing and gassy … – The Seattle Times (blog)
Kirkland Views It was hissing and gassy …The Seattle Times (blog)You do have to be careful with suspicious packages, so when the Kirkland and Bellevue fire departments responded to the hazardous materials call, they evacuated the post office and a nearby apartment complex as a precaution. All roads leading to …
Read More »Six-time Olympic Champion Lidiya Skoblikova Presented 2014 Olympic Stamps Featuring Six Sports
The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee in cooperation with "Publishing and Trading Center "Marka" and "Russian Post" has staged a commemorative ceremony marking the cancellation of stamps of the series "The XXII Olympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Olympic winter sports". … More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Sees Holiday Shipments Up 13%
As more shoppers shift their spending online, FedEx is expecting to see a record volume of shipments over the holiday season. More: continued here
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