Town Fights for Post OfficeWSAV-TVNeighbors in a tiny Evans County town are fighting a US Postal Service proposal to take away their post office. (more) By Tuquyen Mach Neighbors in this tiny town in Evans County are fighting to save their post office, which first opened in 1890. …and more » …
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City sends post office a messageLancaster NewspapersLancaster City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution opposing the proposal to relocate mail sorting from Lancaster's main post office to Harrisburg. The vote came the night before a public meeting to …and more » More: continued here
Read More »Government, Too, Has Trouble Selling Buildings – New York Times
Government, Too, Has Trouble Selling BuildingsNew York TimesThe government owns or manages more than 900000 structures, and many are vacant or underutilized, like the Old Post Office Building in Washington. A vacant former federal office in Bethesda, Md. But the federal government did not put the building on …and more » …
Read More »Rakuten Weighs Europe Deals to Challenge EBay With Japan Recipe – San Francisco Chronicle
Rakuten Weighs Europe Deals to Challenge EBay With Japan RecipeSan Francisco ChronicleApril 27 (Bloomberg) — Rakuten Inc., Japan's biggest online retailer, is counting on acquisitions to help break the EBay and Amazon habits of European shoppers. Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, the 34-year-old Frenchman who joined last year as part of the … …
Read More »Former eBay executive becomes CEO at Block – Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star Former eBay executive becomes CEO at BlockKansas City StarH&R Block Inc., which just completed a strong tax-filing season, has chosen a former eBay executive to become its chief executive officer next month. William C. Cobb, who has been a director of the Kansas City-based tax preparation and …
Read More »Gas spill at Alaska tank farm briefly closes village school, post office – The Republic
Gas spill at Alaska tank farm briefly closes village school, post officeThe RepublicAP ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska officials say a spill of nearly 2000 gallons of gasoline at a tank farm in a village more than 300 miles west of Anchorage briefly closed the local school and post office and …
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Read More »Former eBay executive becomes CEO at Block
H&R Block Inc., which just completed a strong tax-filing season, has chosen a former eBay executive to become its chief executive officer next month. William C. Cobb, who has been a director of the Kansas City-based tax preparation and financial services company since August, will succeed Alan Bennett on May …
Read More »Royal stamps fly off shelves
Despite getting Prince William’s birthday wrong the first time around, commemorative stamps to celebrate his wedding to Catherine Middleton have almost sold out, New Zealand Post says. More: continued here
Read More »Stocks to watch Wednesday: Boeing, eBay – MarketWatch
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