Linn wants Cascadia post office to remain openAlbany Democrat HeraldThe Linn County Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to ask Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to take Cascadia off the list of post offices that may be closed. One of the criteria for closure is that a post office is less …
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The Irish taxpayer could in future replace the British as the ultimate guarantor of the Post Office savings banks, according to ratings agency Moody’s. More: continued here
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Campus residents argue against post office closureDaily IlliniStudents wait in line at the Altgeld Hall Post Office. The post office is scheduled to be closed soon. The University Station postal location inside Altgeld Hall and Station “A” at 302 E. Green St., Champaign are among the 3700 post offices and …
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Enniscorthy Guardian Fourteen stamps have had connections to the countyEnniscorthy GuardianIRELAND has been producing commemorative postage stamps since June 1929, but surprisingly few Wexford people, places and events have received the stamp of approval from the postal authorities. John Barry, father of the American navy and a native of … …
Read More »EBay Aims to Ease Retail Payments With PayPal Access Service – BusinessWeek
IBNLive.com EBay Aims to Ease Retail Payments With PayPal Access ServiceBusinessWeekOct. 11 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc., trying to lure developers, merchants and consumers to its PayPal system, will unveil a service that lets people use their accounts in different Web stores without having to register at each one. …EBay's PayPal …
Read More »Fingerprinting Those Seeking Food Stamps Is Denounced – New York Times
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Commissioner Lindsey is opposed because “the federal government is broke” More: continued here
Read More »Support your local post office – Shore News Today
Support your local post officeShore News TodayWhat would our community look like without the post office? With news of the possibility of shutting down services in communities like ours it would be a terrible blow. For all who do not have computers or who do not use email how would …
Read More »Suspicious box at post office causes scare – KTVO
Suspicious box at post office causes scareKTVOAround 3:40 pm, the Sigourney Police Department was notified by the Sigourney Post Office that there was a suspicious box behind the building. Police and the US Postal inspectors office decided to contact the Iowa State Fire Marshall's Bomb Squad. …Suspicious box found outside …
Read More »EBay’s PayPal announcing service to ease online retail logins at developer conference
SAN FRANCISCO – PayPal, eBay’s online payment service, plans to announce a new service Wednesday that aims to make it easier to shop online by cutting down on the number of accounts consumers have to create with various Web retailers. More: continued here
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