The Guardian Under threat: 400 years of social historyThe GuardianPacked into two and a half miles of shelving in an underground former boiler room at the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell are records relating to more than 400 years of postal communications. It is an extraordinary resource, … More: continued here
This might have been the most compelling golf playoff that hardly anyone saw. After all the mathematical possibilities had been exhausted, the Tour Championship — and the FedEx Cup — came down to a sudden-death playoff between Bill Haas and Hunter Mahan. The monetary difference between winning and losing was just under $10 million. More:…
2d-code Novel QR Code Postage Stamp2d-codeQR Codes on postage stamps are not new (cf. QR Code Valentine's Day postage stamps from Taiwan and a QR Code postage stamp from Spain) but these (image below) from Hrvatske pošte, the national postal service of Croatia, incorporate a novel …News analysis – Using new technologies on stampsDesign Weekall…
Postal workers protest layoffs, closures in Md., across U.S.Baltimore SunNationally, the US Postal Service is considering closing 3700 offices and laying off more than 120000 workers to overcome an $8 billion budget shortfall. But union members say the post office is fiscally solvent, saying a 2006 Congressional mandate …and more » More: continued here
Many of the essential public service buildings that people need were heavily damaged by flood waters in Meshoppen. More: continued here
Bill Haas waves to the gallery on the 18th green after winning both the FedEx Cup and the Tour Championship. More: continued here
Postal workers protest layoffs, closures in Md., across USBaltimore SunNationally, the US Postal Service is considering closing 3700 offices and laying off more than 120000 workers to overcome an $8 billion budget shortfall. But union members say the post office is fiscally solvent, saying a 2006 Congressional mandate …and more » More: continued here
6abc.com Area residents angry over food stamp confusion6abc.comPARKSIDE – September 27, 2011 (WPVI) — There was a lot of confusion Tuesday for local residents applying for FEMA disaster relief, namely the food stamp program. People in need of food stamps to recover losses from the recent floods overwhelmed …and more » More: continued here
FedEx Corp. founder Frederick W. Smith likes his company’s chances, even if the broader economic outlook is murky. More: continued here
kwgn.com Car crashes into Boulder post officekwgn.comPolice say a woman in her 80s hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes and crashed her car into a post office Tuesday. The woman's Lincoln Continental went through the plate glass window and into the lobby of the Valmont Station post office at about 10 …Boulder police:…