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AIBE Update: Post Office wrongly delivers Applications; Admit Cards dispatched …Bar & BenchWhen we asked Rainmaker, the agency conducting the AIBE, why certain students had not received study material, they told Bar & Bench that, “The post office did not deliver around 900 applications to the BCI as they mistook …

A RUTHERGLEN newsagent was this week facing a Royal Mail probe after over-charging for stamps. Customers at Yaqub’s, in Wallace Street, were asked to cough up a 3p DELIVERY CHARGE on top of each stamp’s face value. More: continued here

» A fire, which broke out in the early morning hours on Christmas Day, heavily damaging the Verdi post office, which serves about 970 customers in the Verdi-Mogul area. More: continued here

The U.S. Postal Service has postponed the potential closure of more than 3,700 post offices and 252 mail processing facilities until at least mid-May 2012. More: continued here

The U.S. Postal Service salutes five kings of the sky with the Birds of Prey stamps: The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), osprey (Pandion haliaetus) and northern harrier (Circus cyaneus). More: continued here

Tiny town's faithful fear post office closureThe TennesseanDonald MacArthur talks with Nancy Kirkland at the Cottage Grove Post Office earlier this month. The US Postal Service wants to shut down the rural post office to help cut costs. / George Walker IV / The Tennessean Cottage Grove residents fear closing …

Cottage Grove residents say shutting down their post office will hurt local Mennonites and elderly people most. More: continued here

Services to be cut at a fifth of post offices in LincolnshireThis is LincolnshireServices at one in five post offices in Lincolnshire could be downgraded under plans to make the network more profitable, it has been claimed. Around 2000 of the network's 11500 branches will be changed into new 'PO …

Pensioner foils Brighton post office raidBBC NewsThe 75-year-old man even managed to grab the robber's crash helmet after he had had burst into the Premier Store post office, Widdicombe Way, Brighton. The offender managed to flee on a moped driven by a second man after the incident on Wednesday. …Pensioner …

ohmidog! New series of stamps honors working dogsohmidog!The four dogs depicted in the 65-cent stamps are a guide dog assisting a woman who is blind, a tracking dog on the trail of a scent, a therapy dog visiting an elderly woman in her home, and a search and rescue dog …