A MAN has been arrested over a string of post office robberies in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. More: continued here
Read More »Mandelson offers olive branch to Royal Mail rebels (Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The government has published the bill to privatise 30 per cent of the Royal Mail with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary offering a potential olive branch to those within his own party opposed to the plan. More: continued here
Read More »Mandelson details Royal Mail plans (Epolitix via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Lord Mandelson has published plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, warning that the “future of this network is under threat” without reform. More: continued here
Read More »Civil rights stamps available at NAACP fundraiser – The Register-Guard
Civil rights stamps available at NAACP fundraiserThe Register-Guard, ORThat’s why Hurley is among 12 civil rights pioneers immortalized in a series of postage stamps released by the US Postal Service in conjunction with the Feb. 12 centennial of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored … More: …
Read More »Downtown Post Office For Sale (KPRC Local 2 Houston)
HOUSTON — Houston’s downtown post office is for sale, KPRC Local 2 reported. The United States Postal Service put the 16-acre site on Franklin Street on the market on Wednesday. More: continued here
Read More »Multi-state drug operation busted by transposed FedEx numbers (The News-Press)
SATELLITE BEACH — A transposed number on a FedEx package resulted in two men being sent to jail on charges of running a multistate operation selling… More: continued here
Read More »Post office raided by masked men – The Press Association
RTE.ie Post office raided by masked menThe Press AssociationTwo post office workers are recovering after a robbery in Co Carlow. Two masked men armed with a sledgehammer and knife entered a supermarket on Staplestown Road at around 11am on Thursday and smashed the glass panel of the post office at …
Read More »Demand for food stamps in Mass. soars (Boston Globe)
Welfare officials say the demand for food stamps in Massachusetts jumped 20 percent last year, straining the system and trying the patience of some residents applying for the benefit. More: continued here
Read More »UK will keep Royal Mail majority stake (Financial Times)
Contentious plans published on Thursday morning to sell a stake of about 30 per cent in Royal Mail to a private sector rival are the “only credible option” to save the state-owned postal operator, the government asserted, as ministers tried to head off a mounting Labour rebellion. More: continued here
Read More »French President Nicolas Sarkozy collects stamps (Daily Mirror)
His wife’s a supermodel 13 years his junior so how does the French president spend his spare time? More: continued here
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