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Direct mail deliveries throughout London are set to be severely disrupted this Friday (19 June) as 10,000 Royal Mail workers are due to hold a 24-hour walkout in protest of the operator’s modernisation plans. More: continued here

The designs of three New Zealand children will be among those to grace New Zealand Post’s Christmas stamps Judges chose the three winners – Apurv Bakshi, seven, from Christchurch, Dannielle Aldworth, 10, from Auckland, and Felix… More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail launches 'mythical' stamp collectionTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomA set of new stamps bearing pictures of mythical creatures such as mermaids, fairies and pixies have been issued by Royal Mail. A fire-breathing dragon, a giant carrying a boulder and Queen Mab riding her chariot are among the characters from British … …

People in Ellesmere are having their post delivered later and later since the town’s Royal Mail delivery office closed its doors, it was claimed today. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Geithner Says US Goal Will Be 'More Boring' Financial SystemBloombergGeithner and Lawrence Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council, wrote in the Washington Post today the plan will also create a “council of regulators” to coordinate supervision across the financial system, and raise capital and …Details Set …

DHR: Don't Fear Applying for Food StampsGPB, GAOfficials from the Georgia Department of Human Resources say if you're out of work and receiving extended unemployment insurance thanks to federal stimulus dollars, don't be afraid to apply for food stamps. The comments come after a newspaper report of … More: continued here

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) compared his proposed health care reform to the relationship between the US Postal Service and private delivery companies. Apparently, this was supposed to be a POSITIVE analogy: “The Postal Service may not be perfect, but the public option is there, and the private companies, …

eBay said a small number of items listed between June 10 – 11 shows a start date in the future (June 15 or June 16). Seller have two options: Let the listing run its course, in which case the item will show up in search at the future start time …

Food stamps for some people just vanished. A new change made some Americans ineligible for hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps. More: continued here

CHESTER Congressman John Hall, D-Dover Plains, will appear in the village today to introduce a law to change the name of the local post office in honor of 1st Lt. Louis Allen. More: continued here