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British gold medal winners at the Paralympic Games will be celebrated with first class stamps and a post box painted gold in their home town after a U-turn by Royal Mail. More: continued here

BBC News Ben Ainslie postbox: Royal Mail U-turn in LymingtonBBC NewsA postbox in Lymington will be repainted gold in honour of Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie, the Royal Mail has said. It had originally only painted a postbox in Cornwall, where Ainslie grew up. A campaign started after Rob Smith, …

Pirates of earlier era received stamp of approvalNorman TranscriptAlong with the release of the stamp, the U.S. Postal Service launched a campaign called “8 on 8.” It's a take on Stargell's retired No. 8 jersey number, and it encourages fans to buy the stamps and mail letters with them to …

This is Nottingham Residents protest against Post Office threatAirdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserPost Office representatives are concerned about the impact on their thousands of local branches if the contract, to be decided this autumn, is awarded elsewhere – saying it could cause some to go out of business. Bargeddie's sub-postmaster Umar …

Internet tax wars: Big vs small; Amazon vs eBayPhiladelphia InquirerLet the states decide whether and how to go after Internet sales, and keep the feds out, says eBay. "The Internet doesn't mean you don't have to collect state sales tax," Bieron concluded. "But we don't think states, deep down, really …

A growing campaign is calling on Royal Mail to relent and paint a postbox gold in honour of a north Norfolk Olympic champion horse. More: continued here

Canadians among top buyers, sellers on Silk Road, the new eBay for illegal drugsTheTyee.caCanadians are among the top sellers and buyers of marijuana, steroids, cocaine and other drugs available at the click of a mouse on an anonymous website that functions like a black market version of eBay, a study …

Journal Times (blog) Britain's Royal Mail in hot water over gold medal Paralympic discriminationJournal Times (blog)While most of Great Britain celebrates surpassing the nation's prescribed pre-Olympics total medals target, the Royal Mail service has found a way to embroil itself in a political snafu after it admitted that it would …

Canadians among top buyers, sellers on Silk Road, the new eBay for illegal drugsTheTyee.caCanadians are among the top sellers and buyers of marijuana, steroids, cocaine and other drugs available at the click of a mouse on an anonymous website that functions like a black market version of eBay, a study …

British gold medal winners at the Paralympic Games will be celebrated with first class stamps and a post box painted gold in their home town after a U-turn by Royal Mail. More: continued here