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LA County expanding food stamp programContra Costa Times, CAAs food banks report the region's worst hunger crisis in decades, Los Angeles County supervisors this week directed officials to allow more middle-class families to qualify for food stamps. Currently, if a family has savings of more than $2000, … More: continued here

doe dumps hydrogen cars, ebay rescues antiquitiesExaminer.comA while back, ebay started allowing people to sell antiquities on its sites. Archeologists worried that this would vastly stimulate looting. In a pleasant surprise, what's vastly increased is not looting but the production of *fake* artifacts. … More: continued here

Metro Royal Mail sell-off plan shaken by profitsIndependent, UKBy Sarah Arnott Royal Mail reported annual profits doubled to £321m yesterday, providing grist to the mill of opponents to the Government's plan to part-privatise the group. Despite the recession, and a 5.5 per cent fall in the number of letters being …Royal …

Angelica Mari, Computing , Thursday 21 May 2009 at 06:45:00 An IT department shake-up that has caused workers to suffer months of job insecurity is souring relations between managers and staff, and threatening to undermine the group’s modernisation plans Royal Mail’s prolonged attempt to reorganise its IT department is sapping …

Letter: Post Office thankful for food donationsThe Western News, MTThe Libby Post Office thanks our many postal customers for giving to the National Association of Letter Carriers annual food drive for the hungry on Saturday, May 9. Postal customers donated 4500 pounds of food. All of the food collected goes to …

eBay will begin running a test next week of some changes to eBay’s feedback system. Brian Burke, Director of Seller Standards & Feedback, discussed the testing in an interview on eBay’s blog, eBay Ink, and said the test would present three or four different “leave Feedback” flows to buyers. More: …

guardian.co.uk Peter Mandelson backs David Miliband to stay as foreign secretaryguardian.co.uk, UKThe rumour was dismissed by Mandelson's office as an attempt to undermine the government's efforts to part privatise the Royal Mail. Shifting Mandelson would allow a new face to be introduced at the business and enterprise department that could review …

Customers downtown looking to make a quick stop at their local post office may find themselves heading up the hill. The U.S. Postal Service’s plans to sell its Kent facility on West Gowe could mean a Kent downtown without a post office for the first time in more than a …

Royal Mails prolonged attempt to reorganise its IT department is sapping morale and casting a pall over its modernisation programme, according to affected employees. More: continued here

WSGW Seized Items Offered On ebayWSGW, MISaginaw County Sheriff Bill Federspiel is giving you the chance, if you' re the highest bidder on ebay for items including an elk head, deer, a coyote, wolf, fish, quail and pheasant — all stuffed and mounted. The property was seized during a drug … …