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Faced with layoffs and foreclosures, the number of food stamps recipients in the Rogue Valley climbed to record levels in January, with Medford showing a 13.5 percent increase compared with a year ago. Ashland climbed 8.7 percent and Grants Pass was up 20.7 percent. More: continued here

eBay UK is giving private sellers (non-business sellers) free listings on auction-format items listed for under a pound, however, the site has raised commission fees for those sellers to 10 percent across the board no matter what the starting price. Fees for business-registered sellers will be unchanged. More: continued here

About a dozen customers waited in line Thursday morning at the post office at the Holiday City at Berkeley minimall. More: continued here

Saturday will be the last day residents in this Ottawa County town can go to the Cardin Post Office. More: continued here

A Union Springs man already serving a life sentence in prison for a sex crime was found guilty by a jury of assault and robbery at the Newton Post Office. More: continued here

Grand promises that you can make millions off EBay by attending a seminar seem fishy, says the Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island. More: continued here

Old post office to remain boarded "for now"Meriden Record-Journal, CTMERIDEN – The old Meriden Post Office on Colony Street certainly looks abandoned these days. The doors are boarded up, broken glass lies on the ground and there are few, if any, people on the property each day. Although efforts are being …

CARDIN — The Cardin post office is shutting down, and the Picher post office won’t be far behind.The U.S. Postal Service will close the Cardin post office Saturday morning because a lease is expiring and because there are environmental issues, said David Lewin, Postal Service regional spokesman.”The post office will …

Amazon.com attracted the most traffic among retail web sites last month, with nearly 57 million unique visitors, 4.3% more than eBay’s 54.5 million visitors, says Nielsen Online. It was the third month in a row in which Amazon led in traffic, after overtaking eBay in November. More: continued here

MPs criticised for not blocking Royal Mail saleSwindon Advertiser, UKBy Jeremy Grimaldi » A UNION representative has slammed Swindon’s Labour MPs for failing to back Parliamentary moves to stop the ‘part-privatisation’ of Royal Mail. Chris Rye, branch secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), hit out at North … More: continued …