The 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. More: continued here
Read More »Old Post Office for sale. Bids start at $300000. What a deal! – WBBM780
Old Post Office for sale. Bids start at $300000. What a deal!WBBM780, ILChicago Post Office spokesman Mark Reynolds says the old main post office was built for 22 million dollars. Commercial real estate expert Wayne Caplan of Sperry Van Ness says he has no idea how much the property would be …
Read More »eBay Challenges Sellers to Use Only eBay (WebProNews)
eBay aims to “spark the entrepreneurial spirit” among its sellers with today’s launch of the eBay Sellers Challenge . The challenge is for sellers to answer the question: “How would you use $25,000 go grow – or start – an eBay business?” “The eBay marketplace is a community rich in …
Read More »Back to Square One with the Post Office – Chicago Reader
Back to Square One with the Post OfficeChicago ReaderThat was back in 2007, when I wrote about the city's proposal to spend $51 million in TIF money to develop the downtown post office. Specifically, I suggested that it might not be a bad investment of TIF dollars if it would …
Read More »Colorado sees dip in new requests for food stamps (KRDO Colorado Springs)
Associated Press – June 9, 2009 8:44 AM ET DENVER (AP) – Colorado officials say the number of new applications for food stamps fell about 16% in May, the largest drop in a single month since… More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Express CEO Bronczek elected chairman of International Air Transport Association Board of Governors (Memphis Business Journal)
FedEx Express president and CEO David J. Bronczek will serve as the next chairman of the International Air Transport Association Board of Governors. More: continued here
Read More »Old post office heading to auction block (Chicago Sun-Times)
The U.S. Postal Service plans to auction off Chicago’s “incredible hulk,” the massive old downtown post office that has been vacant since 1996. With its announcement today, the postal service served notice that it no longer has a long-term contract with Walton Street Capital to redevelop the site at 433 …
Read More »Palm Beach post office building sale to be focus of public meeting – Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach post office building sale to be focus of public meetingPalm Beach Daily News, FLThe United States Postal Service has set a public meeting for 6 pm Wednesday to allow the public to comment on the Postal Service's plan to sell the north Post Office at 95 N. County Road. …
Read More »Royal Mail plans quietly dropped (Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The government may be hoping to lose its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the post. More: continued here
Read More »City could buy old post office (The Florence Times-Daily)
By Bernie Delinski, Staff Writer The old downtown post office soon could be the new City Hall. More: continued here
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