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
Read More »Stamps of approval (The Scientist)
Mary Lasker’s face recently came to grace a US postage stamp — who else in the biomedical world deserves the honor? More: continued here
Read More »eBay: Good in Parts (ReadWriteWeb)
At the Accel Symposium , we heard John Donahoe, eBay CEO, admit that there was little synergy between core eBay, PayPal, and Skype. He lauded PayPal, showed some false modesty around Skype, and talked about core eBay in a way that indicated a clear understanding of its limitations and challenges. …
Read More »EBay Wins Lawsuit in Germany Over Fake Rolex Sales (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc. , the world’s largest online auctioneer, won a German court ruling in a case brought by Rolex Group over sales of counterfeit watches on EBay’s Web site. More: continued here
Read More »Former Hartsville post office employee indicted for theft (Florence Morning News)
A former Hartsville post office employee has been indicted on charges that she took postal funds from the office while she worked there, U.S. Attorney Walter Wilkins said in a press release issued Wednesday. More: continued here
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