JEFF EDELSTEIN: How do you say 'went postal' in German?The TrentonianGoing to the post office has now officially become the single most-annoying thing in my life. See, I am a United States Postal Service customer. …Nine local post office employees take incentive packageTuscaloosa News (subscription)USPS refuses mail delivery for 'safety …
Read More »GM’s trial program selling cars on eBay set to end (Asbury Park Press)
General Motors Co. said Tuesday that it is concluding its partnership with eBay Inc. in which the automaker used the auction site to sell new cars through California dealerships, as it shifts focus to broader, national marketing programs. More: continued here
Read More »Village buy-out plan for Bonchurch post office (Isle of Wight County Press)
The post office and store the village is trying to save. BONCHURCH residents have hatched a plan to save their post office and store — to club together and buy it themselves. More: continued here
Read More »Google Wave Invites Show Up On eBay (Overclockers Club)
The ultra-exclusive Google Wave beta , only 100,000 invites were given out, is now underway. However, if you are an internet user who may have wanted to use it, odds are that you didn’t receive an invite. Just as all other new technology releases, Google Wave invites started to appear …
Read More »City fights to keep post office off hit list (The Beach Reporter)
Hermosa Beach’s only post office is on the chopping block, leaving city officials scrambling for options to try and save it. The United States Postal Service is looking to save money and closing various post offices is a quick way to do that. More: continued here
Read More »Post Office cuts hits OAPs (EDP24 – Eastern Daily Press)
Pensioners in East Anglia are having to depend on family and friends to access their local post office after swingeing cuts hit rural communities. More: continued here
Read More »Nine local post office employees take incentive package – Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
Nine local post office employees take incentive packageTuscaloosa News (subscription)Thirty-year postal employee Chris Nichols helps Brenda Lyons at the downtown post office on Thursday. Nichols is retiring at the end of October. … More: continued here
Read More »Congressman: Capistrano Post Office to Remain Open (The Capistrano Dispatch)
By Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano Dispatch Capistrano’s small Post Office will be spared the budget axe and remain open, according to Congressman Ken Calvert, who represents the area. The town of 35,000 rallied a letter-writing and publicity campaign to save the Paseo Adelanto postal station after it showed up on …
Read More »FedEx Express Canada Joins Tree Canada and Scenic Acres School to Promote Environmental Sustainability (Marketwire)
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire – Oct. 1, 2009) – Federal Express Canada Ltd. (“FedEx Express Canada”), a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX), in support of Tree Canada, greened Scenic Acres School and with the help of FedEx volunteers, students and staff by adding a variety of trees and shrubs to the school’s …
Read More »FedEx Freight pays for flight to reunite ailing girl, family (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
A terminally ill 7-year-old is surrounded by family in a hospice in the Ozarks after FedEx Freight paid to have her whisked home from Houston by air ambulance. The Memphis-based trucking company with offices in Harrison, Ark., footed an $11,000 transportation bill on less than 24 hours’ notice to help …
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