Shopping on eBay just got a bit more rewarding, at least for some users of the online auctioneer’s site. On Wednesday, eBay Inc. launched a “beta” test version of eBay Bucks, a program that lets participants earn a 2 percent reward on certain items they buy… More: continued here
Plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail are so poor, a cross-party committee of MPs has said, they would even be rejected on TV’s Dragon Den. More: continued here
BOSTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. package-delivery company FedEx Corp said on Wednesday a Washington state court ruled the people who handle its deliveries in that state are independent contractors rather than employees. A class action suit against the company’s FedEx Ground unit involving 320 workers in the state sought damages for nonpayment of overtime…
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) — The U.S. Postal Service and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising have announced the Simpsons will soon be featured on 44-cent stamps. More: continued here
The Simpsons, America’s most enduring — or is that endearing? — dysfunctional family will be honored on their own stamps, the Postal Service announced. More: continued here
Old Post Office Plaza to open FridayBizjournals.com, NCA decade after city planners conceived of the plot of land as a park, the $8 million Old Post Office Plaza will officially open Friday. Owners of the 30000 square-foot park blamed underground debris and bad weather for the delay and cost overruns. … More: continued here
Controversial UK Government plans for part-privatisation of Royal Mail are “in pieces” after a Commons Committee said the government has not made the case for the move, and criticised the worrying lack of transparency over Lord Mandelson’s proposals. More: continued here
Food stamps better spent money than big bailoutsSouth Alabamian, ALAlong the way she applied for public assistance and was given $11 in food stamps. She stopped at a grocery after a long night of work. Exhausted, she unloaded her cart slowly, with the food stamps on the counter. The guy behind her said, "Excuse me, ……
The Government’s controversial plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail has come under attack from a cross-party committee of MPs which complained about a ‘lack of transparency’ about the proposals. More: continued here
EBay is moving ahead with a project to let third-party developers build applications on top of Selling Manager, eBay’s tools used by thousands of merchants to manage their businesses on its Web site. More: continued here