The top executive at FedEx Corp. saw his total compensation package drop by about 26 percent to $7.7 million in fiscal 2009 — a year in which thousands of employees were laid off and others took pay cuts, an Associated Press analysis shows. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Truck Hits Tractor-Trailer, Causes Major Jam: Cops (NBC Connecticut)
Traffic was snarled for hours Tuesday morning on Interstate 95 south in West Haven after a tractor-trailer and a FedEx truck collided at 5 a.m. between exits 42 and 41. More: continued here
Read More »Try, Try Again: Arkansas Mom Tries to Sell Baby Naming Rights for … – FOXNews
Try, Try Again: Arkansas Mom Tries to Sell Baby Naming Rights for …FOXNewsAn unemployed Arkansas woman trying to sell the naming rights to her seventh child on eBay is hoping her fifth try is a charm. … More: continued here
Read More »Ministers are ‘sulking’ over Mail privatisation (Morning Star)
Postal workers’ union CWU general secretary Billy Hayes has accused ministers of refusing to negotiate over strikes because they are “sulking” at the failure of their attempts to privatise Royal Mail. More: continued here
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A VILLAGE near Winchester has finally got its post office back – after more than a year of going without. More: continued here
Read More »State gets $2.9 million to help process food stamps (Lexington Herald-Leader)
FRANKFORT — The state is getting $2.9 million from the federal government to overhaul and streamline its food stamp program. The funding comes as the number of people in Kentucky on food stamps reached an all-time high in June, state officials said Tuesday. More: continued here
Read More »2,000 more Staten Islanders getting food stamps this year (Staten Island Advance)
Island tally now 51,126 More: continued here
Read More »Post Office Union Irked by Obama's Diss – CBS News
Post Office Union Irked by Obama's DissCBS News"It's the post office that's always having problems." In the letter, National Association of Postal Supervisors President Ted Keating reportedly said there … More: continued here
Read More »USPS Goes Postal on Obama After Post Office Crack – U.S. News & World Report
FedSmith.com USPS Goes Postal on Obama After Post Office CrackU.S. News & World ReportIt's the Post Office that's always having problems"—has sent his cheerful relations with America's postal unions to the dead letter office. …Obama Goes Postal, Lands in Dead-Letter OfficeBloombergHow is that Post Office comparison working now?Hot AirMaybe We …
Read More »Bride buys wedding dress for 99p on eBay (Daily Telegraph)
When Natalie Mapletoft couldn’t afford her dream £700 wedding dress she bought one from eBay instead for just 99p. More: continued here
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