Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain announced legislation Thursday to put up to 30 percent of the Royal Mail in the hands of investors, part of a plan to raise capital to modernize the government-owned postal service. More: continued here
eBay noted in its 10K filing with the SEC that a class certification motion is scheduled for June 2009 in the Malone v. eBay Inc. antitrust class action lawsuit . In 2007, two eBay sellers filed separate lawsuits against the company, subsequently consolidated into one lawsuit. More: continued here
A MAN has been arrested over a string of post office robberies in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. More: continued here
The government has published the bill to privatise 30 per cent of the Royal Mail with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary offering a potential olive branch to those within his own party opposed to the plan. More: continued here
Lord Mandelson has published plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, warning that the “future of this network is under threat” without reform. More: continued here
Civil rights stamps available at NAACP fundraiserThe Register-Guard, ORThat’s why Hurley is among 12 civil rights pioneers immortalized in a series of postage stamps released by the US Postal Service in conjunction with the Feb. 12 centennial of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored … More: continued here
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
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
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 the back of …Armed raid…
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