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San Francisco Chronicle Congress breaks for 5 weeks, but much work undoneGettysburg TimesThe House settled for a paltry restoration of expired disaster programs for livestock producers and tree farmers. The Senate wouldn't do even that, demanding instead a full five-year farm bill with 80 percent of it, or about $400 …

Use federal money for Postal Service, not warsnwitimes.comYour short piece in the Tuesday, July 31, edition on the current fiscal predicament at the U.S. Postal Service states that "post office nears historic default on $5B payment." While this is factual, the piece gives no context for how the Postal Service …

One-stop shopping: stamps and produceAlbany Times UnionJoy DeVoe assists customer Joan Manion with a package to mail on Friday at DeVoe?s Rainbow Orchards on Route 9 in Halfmoon. The U.S. Postal Service's new Contract Postal Unit store, which officially opens next Thursday. (Dennis Yusko/Times Union) … More: continued here

Stamps honour Olympic athletesCaymanian CompassThe five athletes representing Cayman at the Olympic games in London are being honoured in a stamp issue that became available on Thursday, 2 August. “When we issue stamps to celebrate this sort of an occasion, it reflects the entire country's …and more » More: continued here

Food Stamp Rules Change Adds $460 Million to Cost in Fiscal 2010The New AmericanNearly 3 percent of the households that receive food stamps in United States would have been ineligible to receive them if the income eligibility rules had not been changed, the Government Accountability Office has reported. According to …

VentureBeat Hands on with eBay Now's same-day delivery serviceVentureBeateBay is trying to revolutionize local commerce. Its new product, eBay Now, promises consumers same-day delivery of products found at local retailers. It weaves together eBay's acquisition of Milo.com and its launch of PayPal Here in a way that makes …eBay Now …

NJ.com (blog) The United States Postal Service and the hypocrisy of CongressNJ.com (blog)Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), among others, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building moves …

Two years after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) of the Philippines released its draft rules for feed-in tariff (FiTs), it has approved an initial round of incentives for run-of-river hydro, biomass, wind and solar projects. More: continued here

Click photo to enlargeSan Jose Mercury NewsLaura Trott, Britain's Olympic gold medal-winning track cyclist, will have two mailboxes painted in her honor after the country's Royal Mail postal service mixed up her place of birth. The Royal Mail is painting one of its famous red post boxes gold in … …

A proper name for a post–office fixWinston-Salem JournalBy "things," I actually mean a singular "thing," and that one thing is renaming post offices. ABC OTUS News reported in an online story that, in the past year and a half, members of Congress introduced 60 bills to change the names of …