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Marketing Week DM industry slams Royal Mail"delivered by" mark plansMarketing WeekThe direct mail industry has slammed the Royal Mail's decision to include a new “delivered by…” mark on mail as a “high handed” approach that will reduce response rates from DM packs. The postal operator says all machine-sorted mail will …

Ormskirk Royal Mail workers strike over suspended colleaguesOrmskirk & Skelmersdale AdvertiserSTAFF at Ormskirk's Royal Mail sorting office staged a one-day strike this week in support of two of their colleagues who had been suspended. The workers walked out over the action which was taken against two employees after a registered …

Stamp vendor robbed of cash worth Rs 4 lakhIBNLive.comPTI | 01:07 PM,Jul 21,2011 Ghaziabad, Jul 21 (PTI) A stamp vendor was robbed of Rs four lakh near Nehru nagar stadium here, police said today. Prabhu Dayal, a resident of Hapur, was on his way to a treasury to buy stamps …

Post delivery offices face closureWorcester NewsROYAL Mail delivery offices in Worcester and Droitwich are facing closure as part of cost-cutting proposals. If plans get the go-ahead, workers from delivery offices in Droitwich and Worcester City would move to the Worcester Mail Centre and Delivery … More: continued here

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline; Intel, Qualcomm, EBay Lead RetreatBloomberg(INTC) to Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) and EBay Inc. (EBAY) declined after reporting earnings and European leaders met to discuss preventing the spread of Greece's debt crisis. Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, and Qualcomm, the largest maker of …American Express Rises On Earnings …

On Sept. 16, 1878, the Woodstock Post Office – or Hickcox Prairie as it was known then – opened its doors, with Granger Hickcox as its first postmaster. More: continued here

After making at least nine acquisitions in the past year, EBay reported a drop in second-quarter net income and forecast modestly reduced earnings for the third quarter More: continued here

Could mail delivery be cut back to three days a week? That’s not under consideration now, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Wednesday. But it’s something that could happen in 15 to 20 years. More: continued here

BBC News History of Post Office workers revealed in online archiveYorkshire PostRecords of Post Office workers dating back to 1737 were released online for the first time yesterday, including women who kept the post going during wartime – and 3000 men called Pat. Family history website Ancestry.co.uk said the collection …

The first of four stamp collections will be released in six languages: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. More: continued here