Mum of Afghanistan squaddie blasts post office over birthday cake giftMirror.co.uk, UKBy Richard Smith 9/06/2009 A proud mum wanted to send a birthday cake to her soldier son in Afghanistan – but Post Office staff insisted she cut it in half. Susan Evans decorated the cake with a 30th birthday icing …
Read More »Rare Stamp Of Hepburn Smoking Comes – Oneindia
Oneindia Rare Stamp Of Hepburn Smoking ComesOneindia, IndiaA rare stamp portraying film star Audrey Hepburn smoking is under sale on Germany. In 2001, the country's government had printed 14 million of the stamps as part of a series featuring movie stars including Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Greta … More: continued …
Read More »Armed robbery at post office (Daily Telegraph)
TWO men brandishing knives threatened staff before robbing a post office in Sydney’s eastern suburbs today. A crime scene has been set up. More: continued here
Read More »Mail sorting offices are closed for good – Shropshire Star
Mail sorting offices are closed for goodShropshire Star, UKTwo Shropshire Royal Mail delivery offices were today closed with 16 staff moved and a further four made redundant. Operations at Ellesmere and Church Stretton sorting offices were transferred to Oswestry and Craven Arms as part of a Royal Mail move to … …
Read More »Hostilities over, but Gordon Brown is warned: 'We'll be watching you' – This is London
ABC News Hostilities over, but Gordon Brown is warned: 'We'll be watching you'This is London, UKGordon Brown was put on probation today as he tried to move on from the Labour leadership crisis with a package of reforms and more hints of a climbdown on Royal Mail. The Prime Minister called …
Read More »Proposals to part privatise Royal Mail shelved – The Herald
Proposals to part privatise Royal Mail shelvedThe Herald, UKThe part privatisation of the Royal Mail is to be put on hold by the government in an attempt to placate backbench anger against Gordon Brown. In what is being anticipated as a huge victory for rebel backbenchers over Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, …
Read More »Geneva post office up for sale (Daily Herald)
The Geneva post office is up for sale, after 72 years in business. ut U.S. Postal Service officials say they really want to keep a post office - albeit one they rent, and much smaller – in downtown Geneva. More: continued here
Read More »Teen arrested in Groves post office won’t face federal charges (Beaumont Enterprise)
A car parked outside the Groves post office at 1:30 a.m. Sunday was the clue that led Groves police officer Dane Hollier inside to find a young man sorting through mail apparently taken from nearby post office boxes. More: continued here
Read More »PM Meets New Cabinet After Quashing Rebels – Sky News
guardian.co.uk PM Meets New Cabinet After Quashing RebelsSky News, UKThey are expected to discuss concessions on a plan to part-privatise Royal Mail that has provoked an angry reaction from many Labour politicians. It comes at the end of a tumultuous seven days for Mr Brown. Eleven ministers walked out of the …
Read More »Royal Mail plans quietly dropped – Politics.co.uk
Politics.co.uk Royal Mail plans quietly droppedPolitics.co.uk, UKBy Alex Stevenson The government may be hoping to lose its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the post. politics.co.uk has learned the expectation from Labour party backbenchers is the sale of a stake in the postal services provider will be … More: continued …
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