In Moretown, the mail must go throughBurlingtonFreePress.comNaomi Tilton, post officer in charge at the Moretown post office, looks at a small plaque installed after Tropical Storm Irene which shows the high water mark. Tilton and carrier Reginald Elwell created an emergency post office upstairs during the …and more » More: continued …
Read More »A Christmas Pudding In The Mail Carries A Taste Of Home – WBUR
A Christmas Pudding In The Mail Carries A Taste Of HomeWBUR(Chris Elwell / iStockphoto.com) Any day now it will arrive stamped by the Royal Mail: a truly homemade Christmas pudding from my family in England. My mother always made Christmas puddings. And before moving to the US, I would make …
Read More »Fears over future of Middlewich Post Office – Middlewich Guardian
Fears over future of Middlewich Post OfficeMiddlewich GuardianBy David Morgan » DOUBT has been cast over the future of a town centre Post Office as health plans for Middlewich move forward. Rowlands Pharmacy in Lewin Street could be changing premises as early as March to form part of a new …
Read More »Cedar Bluff: Postal closure averted – Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Cedar Bluff: Postal closure avertedBluefield Daily TelegraphThis time, Cinderella made it home before her post office turned into a pumpkin. As he opened the public hearing concerning the closure of the Cedar Bluff, Va., Post Office Wednesday evening, Charles N. Griffith, manager of post office operations for …and more » More: …
Read More »eBay acquires German ‘purchase-on-invoice’ technology company BillSAFE – TechCrunch
The Next Web (blog) eBay acquires German 'purchase-on-invoice' technology company BillSAFETechCrunchby Robin Wauters A little over a year after its subsidiary PayPal bought a minority stake in German software company BilLSAFE, eBay this morning announced that it has acquired the provider of purchase-on-invoice technology in full. …eBay Inc. Acquires BillSAFEMarketWatch …
Read More »Shoppers Snap Up Luxury Gifts Online – PR Newswire (press release)
Shoppers Snap Up Luxury Gifts OnlinePR Newswire (press release)22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — While the High Street and shopping malls proved unseasonably quiet for the first half of December, Royal Mail reports handling nearly double the volume of parcels at their Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre compared to last …Shoppers Snap Up …
Read More »Royal Mail apologises to residents left unable to collect Christmas packages … – This is Lincolnshire
Royal Mail apologises to residents left unable to collect Christmas packages …This is LincolnshireRoyal Mail has apologised after hundreds of people were left unable to collect packages in the run up to Christmas. Queues at Lincoln's Firth Road sorting office snaked back as customers were forced to stand and wait …
Read More »Pensioners left hundreds of pounds out of pocket in parcel delivery phone scam – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Pensioners left hundreds of pounds out of pocket in parcel delivery phone scamDaily MailThe hoax, which is the work of a company called Parcel Delivery Service, has been the subject of a warning from Crimestoppers, which was alerted to the ruse by Royal Mail and Trading Standards. It …
Read More »Post office delivers holiday cheer to deployed airmen – DVIDS
Post office delivers holiday cheer to deployed airmenDVIDSThe 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron Mail Control Activity, with the help of 10 volunteers, began unloading a postal truck filled to the brim with mail Dec. 20, 2011 – just in time for the holidays. “The past few days have been very busy …
Read More »New Stamps Issued to Mark Anniversary of Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander
Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) — The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK issued stamps on the 20th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il’s assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People’s Army (December 24). More: continued here
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