Ebay has begun developing an alternative to the P2P technology used by Skype as a licensing dispute drags on and threatens to close the popular IP telephony service. More: continued here
Read More »Landmark Washburn post office closed for good today (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
WASHBURN — A community landmark is no more starting Friday after the U.S. Postal Service shuttered the Washburn post office. More: continued here
Read More »New Cuyama Gift Shop Opens Next To Post Office (The Taft Independent)
Sally Bornand has opened her new business Country Corner Gifts next to the New Cuyama Post Office. The shop offers for sale handmade items, quilts, purses, table toppers, wooden toys, coca cola advertising items, and other unique gifts. The shop is open on Saturdays and Sundays. More: continued here
Read More »Part falls off FedEx jet bound for California (The San Francisco Examiner)
LOS ANGELES — A FedEx jet bound from Phoenix to Long Beach Airport was diverted to Los Angeles after witnesses reported seeing something fall off the plane. More: continued here
Read More »Local town celebrates post office’s centennial (WWAY 3 Wilmington)
Video Local town celebrates post office’s centennial Body The town of Chadbourn has reason to celebrate. The town’s post office just had it’s 100th birthday. The Chadbourn post office opened long before 1909, but it didn’t officially become part of the United States Postal Service until President William Howard Taft …
Read More »Royal Mail gets onside with IFA to help clean up football (Belfast Telegraph)
Irish League football clubs are to be given a cash incentive in the latest bid to kick out foul play. Related Stories Unionists in new ID card uproar over removal of Union flag Sex killer returned to jail after breaching conditions Breeder and rider in legal row over horse show …
Read More »FedEx opens new facility (Wausau Daily Herald)
MOSINEE — FedEx Ground plans to open a new 45,000-square-foot distribution facility in Mosinee today. More: continued here
Read More »EBay working on alternative software for Skype (San Francisco Chronicle)
EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service’s founders. In a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange… Sponsored Topics: EBay – Skype – Joltid – …
Read More »Royal Mail staff’s 24-hour strike (BBC News)
Staff at a sorting office in Stoke-on-Trent are on strike over plans to move the depot to Wolverhampton. More: continued here
Read More »Mail not delivered for six months (BBC News)
A postman in Ballyclare, County Antrim, has been suspended for not delivering mail for six months. More: continued here
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