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A FedEx spokesman says shots have been fired at one of the company’s Chicago-area shipping facilities. More: continued here

Online auction giant eBay is to open its first store in the UK for a five-day period in December. More: continued here

A call to support Uphams Corner Post OfficeDorchester ReporterThe Uphams Corner Post Office branch will undergo a 60-day “discontinuance feasibility study” to review whether the Roxbury and Fields Corner offices, each located less than two miles away, can absorb Uphams Corner's roughly 30000 … More: continued here

BBC News Jersey Post stamps cheaper for ChristmasBBC NewsJersey Post is selling stamps at a reduced price in the run up to Christmas for the first time. From Saturday until 10 December, customers can buy local standard letter stamps for 35p instead of 37p, a 5.4% saving. And UK standard …

Police and emergency crews responded to reports of shots fired inside a FedEx building in Bedford Park, Ill. Friday morning. A SWAT team was also spotted at the scene. More: continued here

A former employee ran into a FedEx facility in Bedford Park this morning and opened fire, sending workers scrambling for cover before he turned the gun on himself, according to police and witnesses. More: continued here

RollingStone.com (blog) Woman Gets Jail For Food Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get BailoutsRollingStone.com (blog)Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps. Apparently in this …

Police say a gunman has killed himself inside a suburban Chicago FedEx facility. More: continued here

Thanksgiving 2011: Banks, DMV, post office, Walmart, open or closed on holiday?Examiner.comMail Delivery: According to the USPS Post Office, there is No mail delivery on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 2011 in Rhode Island, or the rest of the United States. Thanksgiving is a US Postal Holiday, and all US …

Problems within the United States Postal Service have led to local postal carriers being forced to deliver mail late into the night and supervisors allegedly ordering the dumping of bulk mail at the Redondo Beach Main Post Office. More: continued here