TSN.ca Stamps ink four defensive backsVancouver Sun, CanadaMcCann, who played at West Virginia, joins the Stamps following stints with the NFL's Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings. Tate attended rookie camp for the NFL's New York Giants in 2008 following three seasons with Akron University. …Stampeders add four defensive backsTSN.caall 4 …
Read More »Recession Pushes Up Food Stamp Payments – istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Recession Pushes Up Food Stamp PaymentsistockAnalyst.com (press release), ORMay 12–TRIAD — Imagine every resident of a city about the size of Charlotte receiving help through food stamps because of the recession and growing unemployment. That's the sobering reality in North Carolina, according to a report released Monday by …Food Stamps The …
Read More »Postage-stamp costs outpace inflation – Baltimore Sun
Washington Times Postage-stamp costs outpace inflationBaltimore Sun, United StatesThe price of a first-class stamp for a one-ounce letter hit 44 cents this week, up from the 42-cent mark reached just a year ago. Over the long and short runs, postage costs have increased substantially faster than general prices. In the last …
Read More »CURRAN: Two blondes and a redhead walk into a post office … – New Albany Tribune
CURRAN: Two blondes and a redhead walk into a post office …New Albany Tribune, INI give the post office sales associate who took the application a grade of F. Before going to the Sellersburg post office, I called the US Department of State Passport's 1-800 number to find out what we …
Read More »Deutsche Post pulls out of Royal Mail race (Financial Times)
Deutsche Post yesterday pulled out of the running for a stake in the UK’s Royal Mail and instead turned the spotlight on the need to overhaul its own mail delivery business as it races to cut costs to cope with an unprecedented plunge in demand. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail pensions deficit 'to cost taxpayer £12bn' – Telegraph.co.uk
Royal Mail pensions deficit 'to cost taxpayer £12bn'Telegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe Government is planning to hide the crippling cost to the taxpayer of taking on Royal Mail's pension deficit, which could be double the published £6bn figure, under proposals to reshape the postal group, a leading pensions expert has warned. … More: …
Read More »Royal Mail partprivatisation on track after vote in Lords (Daily Telegraph)
Rebel Labour peers have failed in their bid to derail Lord Mandelson’s plans to partprivatise the Royal Mail. More: continued here
Read More »Man hurt in crash outside Kingston Post Office – Kingston Daily Freeman
Man hurt in crash outside Kingston Post OfficeKingston Daily Freeman, NYKingston firefighters, police and ambulance workers gathered at the scene of a one-car accident outside Kingston's Main Post Office at Cornell Street and Smith Avenue Monday morning. Police said David W. Laube, 48, of 16 Hill Top Road, Rhinebeck, … More: …
Read More »Macomb mail worker charged in stamp case – Detroit Free Press
Macomb mail worker charged in stamp caseDetroit Free Press, United StatesLinda Ann Martin, a special agent for the US Post Office's inspector general, wrote in an affidavit that agents began investigating after reports of missing postage stamp shipments to a postal carrier annex in Clinton Township. … More: continued here
Read More »Brown to face MPs’ revolt over Royal Mail (Financial Times)
Ministers are willing to cede overall control over the appointment of Royal Mail’s chief executive and other key “operational matters” to a minority shareholder in the postal operator, it emerged on Monday. More: continued here
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