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In celebration of Peter Kennaugh’s gold medal win at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the post box at Onchan Post Office will be transformed into gold over the weekend to recognise his outstanding achievement. More: continued here

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 not issue stamps for winners of gold medals in the Paralympic Games , as it …

Telegraph.co.uk No individual stamps to honour Paralympic gold medallistsTelegraph.co.ukIn a statement on its website, the British Paralympic Association said: "Royal Mail's special stamps and gold post boxes to celebrate Team GB's gold medals have prompted questions on whether there are also plans to celebrate ParalympicsGB's gold medals.Paralympians 'pleased' with stampsThe …

TennisEarth.com Golden mailbox: Ultimate tribute for British athletes, with occasional …North County Times (blog)Laura Trott won double gold in cycling for Team GB, and the Royal Mail honored her by painting a mailbox in Harlow in Essex, which the official team roster listed as her place of birth. Which it …

Daily Deal Media Ebay Introduces Same-Day DeliveryBusiness InsiderFollowing moves by several other online companies including Amazon, Ebay has announced its own experimentation with same-day delivery called Ebay Now. The move toward instant gratification and numerous other e-commerce trends will have many …eBay, Shopkick top list of most-used mobile shopping appsBizjournals.com …

Royal Mail paints the wrong postbox gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles. More: continued here

Free stamp show Saturday in SequimPeninsula Daily“Items will be offered from all over the world, including many countries you never knew even existed,” said Phil Castell of the Strait Stamp Society, which organizes an annual show for stamp-collectors and those interested in philately, or the study of … More: continued …

Lutterworth Mail Post Office deal is goal for clubLutterworth MailA LUTTERWORTH football team has teamed up with the town's post office in a deal which it is hoped will both benefit the club's players and help raise money for new sporting facilities. Lutterworth Athletic FC has organised a partnership witht …

Now it’s time to try for instant shopper gratification again, or as near instant as is possible while allowing for a decent profit, writes Carol Kopp. More: continued here

Belfast Telegraph Hate mail: Jessica Ennis' gold postbox daubed with graffitiMirror.co.ukA new layer of gold has been applied by a Royal Mail engineer, a Sheffield City Council spokeswoman said. Royal Mail said it did not know what the graffiti said as an engineer repaired the damage very quickly as "a …