GREENSBORO – Fire crews will use the former post office building on East Market Street this weekend for urban search and rescue training exercises. The Greensboro Fire Department and other area agencies will use the vacant building at 900 E. Market St. from 8 a.m. Friday through 8 a.m. Monday. …
Read More »eBay Asked to Stop Auctions of Guided Trophy Hunts (Environment News Service)
, February 12, 2009 (ENS) – Canadian and U.S. wildlife advocates are asking that the eBay auction website stop the sale of guided trophy hunts for bears, wolves, cougars and other top predators. More: continued here
Read More »Fresno woman sells prized baseball card for $64073 – Fresno Bee
Fresno woman sells prized baseball card for $64073Fresno Bee, CA –Feb 10, 2009By Mike Osegueda / The Fresno Bee The 1869 baseball card that 72-year-old Fresno antique dealer Bernice Gallego found in an old box and once put on eBay for …Rare Baseball Card Sells for a Hefty Sum at AuctionKSEEAntiques Dealer …
Read More »Export hears zip on new post office (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Six months after the borough’s post office on Kennedy Avenue closed and its operations moved to Murrysville post office, little progress has been made to bring a post office back to town. The postal service received bids for three possible locations in September but hasn’t decided if any fit its …
Read More »MURRIETA: Post office to hold passport fair Saturday (The Californian)
MURRIETA —- A passport fair will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Murrieta post office on Los Alamos Road. More: continued here
Read More »Rare Baseball Card Sells for a Hefty Sum at Auction – KSEE
Rare Baseball Card Sells for a Hefty Sum at AuctionKSEE, CA –Feb 10, 2009After nearly selling the card that features the father of Baseball and his Cincinnati Red Stockings team for nearly 10 bucks on EBay, tonight, the Gallego's …Fresno woman's rare baseball card nets $64073nwitimes.comall 153 news articles More: continued here
Read More »VHP men ransack Jharkhand post office for selling V-day cards (New Kerala)
Bokaro (Jharkhand), Feb 12 : Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) supporters Thursday ransacked the main post office of Bokaro district to protest the sale of Valentine’s Day cards. A post office employee was injured, police said. More: continued here
Read More »Stamps.com Gains Patent – socalTech.com
Stamps.com Gains PatentsocalTech.com, CA –6 hours agoLos Angeles-based Stamps.com, which operates an Internet-based postage service, has scored a new patent, covering the firm's cryptography systems. …Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains Important Cryptographic Patent for …Business Wire (press release)all 11 news articles More: continued here
Read More »Your 2 cents worth: Price of stamps going up again (Greater Milwaukee Today)
WEST BEND – Per annual tradition, a higher postal rate is headed to consumers in May. The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday announced a 2-cent price increase for first-class mail stamps – raising their total cost to 44 cents. More: continued here
Read More »Darwin honoured on new stamps (Gulf Times)
Britain’s Royal Mail issued a set of stamps yesterday to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of his seminal work on the theory of evolution. More: continued here
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