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On Tuesday, New York-based designer Derek Lam began selling what eBay is calling the “first-ever crowd-sourced collection” through an exclusive partnership with eBay. Derek Lam + eBay is his collection of five dresses priced at $125 to $295, a fraction of Lam’s ready-to-wear prices. The collection was whittled down from …

Thieves are targeting the parking lots of Houston-area post offices, police say. More: continued here

Heaven Scent: Australia Post is Releasing Scented Stamps!BellaSugar AustraliaOn May 17, the Farming Australia issue will be released; it features four 60¢ stamps, each depicting native produce — there's bush honey, macadamia nuts, tea-tree oil and eucalyptus oil. With the eucalyptus oil one actually smelling of the indigenous …Australia Is …

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it is selling a controversial slice of undeveloped Orange County — 25 acres of raw, commercially-zoned land it owns in Aliso Viejo.USPS said in a press release that it “recently determined it foresees no future use for the… More: continued here

Globe and Mail Simply put, The Post Office could deliver moreToronto SunAs plays go, it's hard to imagine one more simple than India's first Nobel Laureate and Renaissance man Rabindranath Tagore's The Post Office, written in 1911 and finally, a full century later, playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre in …

The Paper Magazine Leave food by mailbox May 14 for Post Office hunger driveTehachapi NewsLast year here in Tehachapi Post Office, we were able to fill up 6 huge truckloads of food. We are striving to surpass that this year. All food donated will be collected by our local Salvation …

Scientology Operation Against Washington Post Reporter Richard Leiby ExposedVillage Voice (blog)Reached at his Washington Post office this morning, Leiby told me he could not make a comment about the matter. Rathbun has previously posted at his blog formerly secret internal OSA documents. In this case, a 2006 document is marked …

New York Magazine 3 Minutes with Rachel Bilson: From Karl to Derek Lam + eBayStyleCasterLast night there was a block party celebration to mark the official launch of Derek Lam's collection for eBay (Derek Lam + eBay), which is a novel type of collab and the first of its kind …

A classic Bengali fable is inspired by transcendence, but remains earthbound in the delivery More: continued here

Globe and Mail The Post Office can't quite deliver on dream of transcendenceGlobe and MailIndian poet Rabindranath Tagore's 1911 play Dak Ghar (The Post Office) may be best known in the West for its heart-rending connection to the Holocaust. This was the play performed by orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto …