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(Corrects headline, first paragraph to specify that job cuts are at joint venture.) March 5 (Bloomberg) — TNT NV , Europe’s second-biggest express-delivery service, and ING Groep NV will eliminate 1,850 jobs as they end their Dutch post-office banking joint venture over the next five years. More: continued here

Post Office closures are “Politics of the Madhouse”Cotswold Chatterblog, UK –1 hour agoGeoffrey Clifton-Brown the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Cotswolds found some unlikely allies during a debate on Post Office Closures yesterday …Post Office Meeting in Longborough in the CotswoldsCotswold Chatterblogall 2 news articles More: continued here

Lancashire Telegraph heralded over Post Office campaignLancashire Evening Telegraph, UK –2 minutes agoHe said: "If we follow the programme of closures, the most vulnerable will find it most difficult of all to access a post office. "It is important that this … More: continued here

Post Office re-opens with new storeSommerset County Gazette, UK –2 hours agoBy Phil Hill TAUNTON Post Office was officially re-opened after a £2million revamp that will also see a convenience store in the North Street building. … More: continued here

Royal Mail shake-up proposalRoad Transport, UK –1 hour agoUK Mail has called for radical changes in the way Royal Mail is operated. The firm commissioned a report from economic consultant David Stubbs of Europe … More: continued here

MP asks for review of Post Office outreach servicesSleaford Today, UK –4 hours agoBy Sadie Lawlor SLEAFORD MP Douglas Hogg has asked Post Office Ltd to regularly review the outreach facilities which are set to replace some post office… More: continued here

Charity eBay sellers 'must donate'Channel 4 News, UK –6 minutes agoVendors using eBay to sell tickets for charity events will be forced to make a donation to the organisers, the online auction site has said. … More: continued here

Fears in American Samoa food stamps will go unless Congress passes …Radio New Zealand International, New Zealand –1 minute agoFunding for food stamp vouchers in American Samoa for the elderly and disabled could be stopped in two weeks if Congress does not extend its legislation or … More: continued here

Boy, the things with Brett Favres face on it. And there was a lot of it being listed for sale on the Internets most familiar auction site on Tuesday morning. In a one-hour window from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., there were 253 newly listed items that were related to …

Eight British soldiers have been sent home to face disciplinary action for reportedly taking off their clothes and urinating in a Norwegian bar.The soldiers, from the Army’s 59 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, drunkenly stripped at a bar in the town of Harstad and began urinating on each other and …