Former FedEx lobbyist Doug Buttrey is leaving the U.S. Surface Transportation Board effective March 13. More: continued here
Read More »Petersburg Post Office halts night, Sunday lobby hours (The Petersburg Progress-Index)
PETERSBURG — If you’ve been to the main Petersburg Post Office on Franklin Street lately and it’s been after 6 p.m., you may have been unable to get in. That’s because on Feb. 23, the lobby hours were changed. More: continued here
Read More »Possible Lost Pop Art Painting Put On eBay (WCBS-TV New York)
A 7-foot painting that may or may not be the work of famed pop artist Keith Haring goes on sale on eBay Friday night. The opening bid? Ninety-nine cents. More: continued here
Read More »Brown to Invest 1.9 Billion Pounds in UK’s Royal Mail Network – Bloomberg
BBC News Brown to Invest 1.9 Billion Pounds in UK’s Royal Mail NetworkBloombergBrown, speaking at a televised Labour Party event today in Bristol, southwest England, said he would invest in the Royal Mail Group Plc, the state-owned postal service, and guarantee a 25 billion-pound ($35.9 billion) pension fund. …PM: Royal …
Read More »Diamonds, stamps: Now both are forever (The Journal-Standard)
Price and awareness increases have propelled the popularity of the Forever Stamp. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced first-class stamps are going to 44 cents, as of May 11, 2009. About 6 billion Forever stamps have been sold since fiscal year 2008, according to USPS spokesman Tim Ratliff. USPS introduced …
Read More »Belgians join rush for stake in Royal Mail – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Belgians join rush for stake in Royal MailTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe private equity-backed Belgian postal group De Post-La Poste has become the latest in a string of overseas companies to register interest in acquiring a stake in Royal Mail. By Mark Kleinman CVC Capital Partners, the buyout firm which has made …
Read More »PM takes on mail critics – TeleText
PM takes on mail criticsTeleText, UKGordon Brown has taken on critics of Government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail – urging them to face facts about the problems facing the service. The PM said that he recognised the concerns of unions and many Labour MPs and would listen to them … …
Read More »Stamps & Coins: Lincoln's memory is as shiny as the new pennies – Sacramento Bee
Stamps& Coins: Lincoln's memory is as shiny as the new penniesSacramento Bee, USAEarlier this month, I traveled to Springfield, Ill. I had received an invitation from a friend to attend the Lincoln Society dinner there celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The added attraction was the evening's speaker: …
Read More »Gordon Brown attacks 'indefensible' bank practices – guardian.co.uk
Times Online Gordon Brown attacks 'indefensible' bank practicesguardian.co.uk, UKA hundred Royal Mail protesters jeered and booed Brown as he arrived at the forum. The demonstrators were voicing opposition to his plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail, an issue that has split the Labour party. Brown said he was listening to the …
Read More »Neither snow, nor rain … but maybe finances – Northwest Herald
Neither snow, nor rain … but maybe financesNorthwest Herald, ILArea residents in the Cary Post Office one day this week had mixed opinions. Linda Trexler of Cary stops at the post office at least once a week to mail grant documents for a nonprofit organization. She said she opposed the idea …
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