Lawyers: Now for Sale by the Hour on eBayAbove the LawHere at Above the Law, we know that thanks to the powers of the internet, you can buy and sell just about anything on eBay, including stuff that may be relevant to your life in the law. We're talking about things like: And these days,…
Marketing Week Regulator backs Royal Mail setting pricesFinancial TimesRoyal Mail will be freed to set prices for the majority of its products under proposals from Ofcom, the communications regulator, in a move that could boost government hopes of eventually privatising the …Royal Mail Stamp Prices Set to Rise?MarketWatch (press release)UPDATE 2-UK's Royal Mail to get…
ABC News (blog) GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions: Food Stamps'Out of Control'ABC News (blog)Food stamps, he told ABC News' “Top Line” today, are a symptom of a government run out of control. “No program in our government has surged out of control more dramatically than food stamps,” said Sessions, R-Ala. “And now, nothing is being done…
Senate passes bill to rename post office for fallen Plymouth soldierThe Patriot LedgerBy Anonymous Legislation filed by Massachusetts by Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown passed the Senate on Thursday that would rename the US Post Office in Sagamore Beach after Staff Sgt. Matthew Pucino of Plymouth, who was killed in Afghanistan in …and more »…
Despite initial eyebrow-raising, the digital privacy rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that it’s smoothed out most wrinkles it might’ve had with Amazon’s coming Silk browser. More: continued here
Bill would protect rural post officesSalina JournalBy the Salina Journal US Senator Jerry Moran has introduced a bill to protect some rural post offices from closure. The “Protecting Rural Post Offices Act,” listed as Senate Bill 1668, would prohibit the US Postal Service from closing a post office if …and more » More: continued here
Broad Brook Resident Charged With Assault on Federal OfficialPatch.comRichard Covill, co-chairman of East Windsor's Economic Development Commission and a candidate for board of finance alternate, allegedly shoved his former supervisor at the US Post Office on Weston Road in Hartford. By Larry Smith Broad Brook resident …Ex-Postal Employee Charged With Postmaster AttackNBC ConnecticutJob gripe behind…
ST. ANTHONY – About 60 Chester and Parker Post Office patrons heard a Postal Service official explain that cold, hard economic reality is the reason the agency is proposing to close many post offices across the state and nation. More: continued here
ONLY months after Australia Post was swamped with petitions fighting closure of the historic Timor Street post office, it is about to be hit with another community wave pushing for a new postal outlet in the city’s north. More: continued here
Evening Standard UPDATE 2-UK's Royal Mail to get price-setting powersReutersRoyal Mail, which made a 120-million pound ($190 million) loss on its letters business last year, will be able to charge as much as it wants for first-class stamps for letters and parcels. The regulator proposed a cap of 45-55 pence for stamps for …Royal Mail…