Post office workers’ weekends may get a little longer in the near future. Legislation has been proposed that would reduce the operation of the post office from a six-day workweek to a five-day workweek, said Kirk Edgecombe, acting postmaster for the city of Urbana. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx’s Home Airport Keeps Title as World’s Busiest for Cargo (Bloomberg)
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Read More »Memphis airport keeps busiest for cargo title (Houston Chronicle)
FedEx Corp.’s home airport in Memphis, Tenn., remained the world’s busiest for cargo in 2008, weathering a challenge from Hong Kong. More: continued here
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Read More »Midprofile Corporation Releases First Mobile Wireless Application to Embed YouTube Videos into eBay Item Listings (PRWeb)
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Read More »Today in the press – RTE.ie
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Read More »after DHL … Can the post office fill the void? – DC Velocity
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Read More »Charges filed in death of Royal Lakes man (The Telegraph)
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