New Straits Times Smart tunnel on stampsNew Straits TimesKUALA LUMPUR: The Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (Smart) tunnel will be immortalised in a special stamp and first day covers by Pos Malaysia from Nov 21. Haslina Che Hassan Che Nordin showing Pos Malaysia's latest stamp collection 'Smart Tunnel …Pos Malaysia Issues Special Stamps Featuring Smart…
Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail gets ready for Christmas rushSouth Wales ArgusROYAL Mail is gearing up to deliver around 200 million items across Wales on the run-up to Christmas. More than 6500 staff, supported by an extra 1000 seasonal workers in centres, will be working around the clock to collect, sort and deliver cards, …Record number of…
— The Edmonton Eskimos and B.C. Lions have similar problems heading into Sunday’s CFL West Division Final. More: continued here
A gunman walked into a southwest suburban FedEx shipping facility Thursday morning yelling for his wife, then fired several shots that sent panicked employees fleeing before he fatally shot himself, police said.Nobody else was injured in the Bedford Park shooting. The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Benyamin Robinson of Chicago, was found dead in a vehicle…
Jweekly.com Post office releases fourth Chanukah stampJweekly.comThe post office last month unveiled a new stamp to commemorate Chanukah, as well as new stamps for Christmas and Kwanzaa. The Chanukah stamp spells the holiday with an “H” and the second “K” appears in the silhouette of a dreidel. … More: continued here
Lake George residents unhappy about post office planMinnesota Public RadioAbout four dozen people rallied recently to support keeping a post office open in the tiny town of Lake George north of Itasca State Park. It's a scene that's being played out in small towns across the country as the US Postal Service seeks to close…
Inside a grad student’s apartment at the University of Pennsylvania sits a slightly faded blue-and-white wooden sign from a post office in Malone, Wash., that no longer exists. More: continued here
Brian Hughes Examiner Staff Writer Examiner Coverage More coverage of D.C. local news The District and two states saw a drop in the number of residents using food stamps last year, as 13.6 million households nationwide received the federal benefit in a slowly rebounding economy. According to newly released census data, nearly 12 of every…
WZZM Food stamp use up in '10, especially in Nev-US CensusReutersWASHINGTON Nov 17 (Reuters) – The number of US households relying on food stamps, the subsidies that help people cover the costs of groceries, soared 16 percent in 2010 to 13.6 million, the Census said on Thursday. That means more than one in 10 …Michigan…
Consumers will use smartphones and 2-D bar codes to purchase products. A new eBay Inc. pop-up store in the United Kingdom will enable shoppers with mobile devices to browse and buy holiday gifts in a physical location. More: continued here