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SNAP / Food Stamp Challenge, Day 2: The ShelfPatheos (blog)Because it was my idea to do this for a week (living on the equivalent budget of food stamps for seven days), everyone ends up coming to me to “check on the rules.” basically, this means they ask me about ways …

High bid wins: Airlines offer free access to eBayNBCNews.com (blog)Follow @NBCNewsTravel. Instead, fliers on Delta Air Lines and Virgin America can now use the inflight Wi-Fi provided by Gogo to get free access to eBay, the online auction site, any time they're above 10000 feet. More: continued here

FedEx Corp. ( FDX ) announced that its has set a goal of making its fleet of vehicles 20% more fuel efficient and reducing aircraft carbon emissions intensity to 30% by 2020. In its More: continued here

EcommerceBytes (blog) eBay Experiments with Free Listing Model in a Bid to Boost RevenuesTrefiseBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) is experimenting with the free listing model by making it free to list Sports Memorabilia, Cards & Fan Shop on eBay Marketplaces in both auction and fixed-price formats through the end of the year. The …

The service could save $2 million annually by ending overproduction of stamps that, like the Simpsons run, end up being destroyed when they don’t sell, the Postal Service's inspector general said More: continued here

NORWICH, N.Y. (WKTV) – A former postmaster at the North Norwich Post Office was sentenced in Federal Court on Tuesday for misappropriation of postal funds. More: continued here

FedEx recently released fourth annual Global Citizenship Report that highlighted its target of achieving fuel efficiency of 20% and reducing aircraft carbon emissions intensity to 30% by 2020. More: continued here

Globe and Mail Monthly Budget Gap Surprises British GovernmentNew York TimesFor the fiscal year to date, public-sector net borrowing — excluding financial sector interventions and the one-time boost earlier in the year from a transfer of Royal Mail pension assets to the public sector — totaled £47.2 billion, up £11.6 …

eSecurity Planet Sophos Warns of Royal Mail Malware CampaigneSecurity Planet"The email does have a veneer of legitimacy as the criminals used the Royal Mail logo and spoofed the 'From' email address to seem like the message is coming from the organization," writes Help Net Security's Zeljka Zorz. According to Sophos, …

The United States Postal Service is apologizing to the residents of a Jersey City apartment building after a city post office didn’t deliver mail to them for an entire week. More: continued here