U-turn over stamps for Paralympians – The Press Association

The Guardian U-turn over stamps for ParalympiansThe Press AssociationBritish 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. Royal Mail will issue the individual first class stamps for each …

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Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking Services – Huffington Post

Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking ServicesHuffington PostOn July 27, 2012, the National Association of Letter Carriers adopted a resolution at its National Convention in Minneapolis to investigate establishing a postal banking system. The resolution noted that expanding postal services and developing new … More: continued …

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Saudia Arabia Stamps Foot, Demands TLDs Wiped From the Web

Today in international tech news: Saudi Arabia asks ICANN to prohibit a laundry list of top-level domains — .gay, .wine, .sex among them. Also: A Briton is sentenced to four years in prison for operating the streaming site surfthechannel.com; Walmart ups its stake in a Chinese e-commerce company; Ecuador has …

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Olympic gold for England’s postboxes – Boxscore

Boxscore Olympic gold for England's postboxesBoxscoreLarkhill Post Office has become the UK's first to have its postbox painted gold in celebration of Captain Heather Stanning's Olympic gold medal win in the women's coxless rowing pairs – but it wasn't done by Royal Mail. The Royal Mail is only painting …Call …

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