People under 35 are moving home more frequently than their parents and grandparents and this is opening them up to identity fraud, according to a study of 1,000 under-35s by the Royal Mail’s Redirection Service. The National Fraud Authority says identity fraud costs the UK £2.7bn. More: continued here
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Subversify Food Assistance Recipients Helped on Irene LossesThe Daily StamfordThe US Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service has approved over $13 million in replacement benefits for Connecticut households enrolled in the federally funded program, formerly known as food stamps. The federal approval authorizes …State benefits extended to replace food …
Read More »Would You Miss Your Post Office If It Closed? – AuctionBytes Blog (blog)
AuctionBytes Blog (blog) Would You Miss Your Post Office If It Closed?AuctionBytes Blog (blog)Kenneth Corbin attended hearings in Washington DC this week on the USPS plans to close over 3652 post offices (see the Newsflash article). In defending the plan, a USPS representative told the Postal Regulatory Commission it would …
Read More »What’s Wrong With the U.S. Postal Service? Five Things to Know – International Business Times
The State What's Wrong With the U.S. Postal Service? Five Things to KnowInternational Business TimesThe White House may help the Post Office out in the short term, according to a report, delaying a $5.5 billion payment due at the end of this month while Congress is lobbied for help to …
Read More »Postal clerk who stole huge deposits nabbed after 5 years on run – Focus Taiwan News Channel
Postal clerk who stole huge deposits nabbed after 5 years on runFocus Taiwan News ChannelHe was given the rank at the request of Chunghwa Post Co. because the Dongyin postal office is under the state-run company's military postal affairs division. Dongyin lies closer to the Chinese mainland than to Taiwan …
Read More »County lobbies US to keep city post office open – Youngstown Vindicator
County lobbies US to keep city post office openYoungstown Vindicator… the city's mail processing center will be at 11:30 am next Friday outside the main post office at 99 S. Walnut St. If Youngstown's mail processing is moved to Akron or Cleveland, mailed benefit checks and medications will be delayed, …
Read More »Downtown Indianapolis post office shut down
Firefigters and police have shut down the main post office in downtown Indianapolis, where they are investigating a hazardous materials leak. Firefigters and police have shut down the main post office in downtown Indianapolis, where they are investigating a hazardous materials leak. More: continued here
Read More »24 More Counties Added To Disaster Food Stamps Program – WITN
24 More Counties Added To Disaster Food Stamps ProgramWITNThe program refers to "Disaster Food and Nutrition Services Benefits," which were formerly known as food stamps. – The program is open for those who do not currently qualify for food stamps. (Households that currently receive food and nutrition …Additional NC counties …
Read More »What Would a World Without the US Postal Service Look Like? – New York Magazine
ABC News What Would a World Without the US Postal Service Look Like?New York MagazineOnly the post office goes to those places and thousands of others in the United States, and all for 44 cents. And it's older than the United States itself. Government mail services have been the norm …
Read More »Making an oceanic home for sailors – Royal Gazette
Making an oceanic home for sailorsRoyal Gazette“On the morning of Thursday 27th January 1927, the crew of the brand new pilot gig Ocean Queen II put Pilot Henry Tucker aboard the incoming Royal Mail Steam Packet Avon, and disappeared into stormy, foggy weather off Kitchen Shoals. … More: continued here
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