By Wayne Peal COMMUNITY EDITOR Looking for cheap transportation – never mind the gas mileage? Then look to eBay. You just might find a Southfield school bus to your liking. Deputy Supt. Kenson Siver said the district has been selling some of its old buses on the popular Internet service …
Read More »Postal agencies look to technology to replace business disappearing to technology (The Journal News)
NEW YORK – Marty Sellers once needed about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year. More: continued here
Read More »I’m dying & you want $5? (New York Daily News)
A Staten Island woman being rushed from her doctor’s office to the hospital after a heart attack was hounded for a $5 insurance co-pay while lying on a gurney and breathing through tubes. More: continued here
Read More »FedEx Custom Critical delivers on white glove promise (The Plain Dealer)
UPDATED: 00 :03 a.m. EDT, February 03, 2008 Discuss today’s top stories. More: continued here
Read More »The Royal Mail’s Worldwide Distribution Centre – as big as six football pitches and more advanced than a space shuttle (Daily Mail)
This is the vast interior of the Royal Mail’s Worldwide Distribution Centre near Heathrow. The 430,000 sq ft building is the size of six football pitches and, by 2009, will sort every letter and parcel to enter or leave Britain. Already 460,000 packages an hour travel along the centre’s ten …
Read More »America pulled together – Santa Maria Times
America pulled togetherSanta Maria Times, CA –5 hours agoEach general rationing book, containing both red and blue stamps, was imprinted with the person's full name, along with his or her height, weight, … More: continued here
Read More »Tracking progress – Boston Globe
Tracking progressBoston Globe, United States –3 hours agoHe is also, by the way, one of the five interested developers in the post office. Hines could end up with the whole thing – maybe 8 million square feet … More: continued here
Read More »Woman’s art proves stamp-worthy (The Herald News)
An avid gardener, Ann Bonzani photographs the annuals and perennials that grow in the spacious garden of her New Lenox home to provide a steady stream of subjects to paint during winter. But earlier this year, Bonzani took paint to canvass to reproduce one flower from her garden, a gloriosa …
Read More »FedEx, other companies vying for Super Bowl ad wins (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Super Bowl ads used to be top secret until the folks at Doritos turned the world topsy-turvy last year with its consumer-submitted entries. More: continued here
Read More »Post office named for fallen soldier (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
BALDWIN PARK – The Baldwin Park post office was named for the first Baldwin Park soldier killed in Iraq in a ceremony Saturday morning, officials said. • Photo Gallery: Post Office named after fallen soldier More: continued here
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