Royal Mail kicks off £11m digital roster overhaulCampaignLiveProximity London currently handles the lion's share of the account, winning its chunk of the business in 2003. TMW and Targetbase Claydon Heeley are also on Royal Mail's digital roster. The appointed agencies will each focus on one specialist element … More: continued here
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, 51, was arrested …Royal Mail's…
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 eight friends. I would like…
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 Farooq …MP backs post office…
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 think they need … More:…
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 has found. The website, called…
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 not issue stamps for winners…
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 has found. The website, called…