Kent Online Postal Museum celebrates regional stampsDesign Week, UK –1 hour agoTo mark the occasion, Royal Mail has commissioned Sedley Place designer and philatelic specialist Rupert Denyer to created a prestige stamp book and …Stamps focus on rare insectsDorset EchoInsect stamps launchNatural History MuseumFirst class ant makes rare appearanceWoking News and MailKent Onlineall 5 news articles More:…
Bootle post office campaigners 'gutted' but vow to fight onicSeftonandWestLancs, UK –3 hours agoby Mark Johnson, Bootle Times CAMPAIGNERS are ‘gutted’ to have lost their battle to keep a Bootle post office open but have vowed to keep fighting. … More: continued here
John Donahoe, the new chief of the Internet?s largest e-commerce site, wants eBay to operate less like an unruly flea market and more like a strip mall. More: continued here
Danbury may cash in on post officeDanbury News Times, CT –3 hours agoBy Eugene Driscoll Staff Writer DANBURY — City officials are hatching a plan that would see Danbury purchase the Main Street post office and rent it to … More: continued here
Ebay records 22% rise in Q1 net profitTelecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands –5 hours agoEbay reported first-quarter net profit of USD 562 million, up 22 percent from a year earlier. Revenues rose 24 percent to USD 2.192 billion, … More: continued here
WH Smith puts brave face on high street gloomTimes Online, UK –3 hours agoIt has also made a substantial move into postal services, taking on the franchises of 70 Crown post offices from Royal Mail. … More: continued here
Thousands raised by marathon effortThis is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK –2 hours agoRoyal Mail staff from Warminster raised more than £2000 for Dorothy House Hospice in memory of local mother-of-two Fiona Akers, who died of cancer in June … More: continued here
The Room to Improve column last Thursday, about décor for children?s bedrooms, misidentified the maker of wall decals. They were made by Fastsigns, not FedEx Kinko?s. More: continued here
DRIVER DIED INSTANTLY IN FATAL ACCIDENT WITH LORRYExpress & Echo, UK –1 hour agoBY AIMEE COELHO An Exeter father-of-five was killed instantly after being involved with a collision with a Royal Mail articulated vehicle that was being … More: continued here
On the Watch: IBM and eBay beat 1Q profit expectationsForbes, NY –2 hours agoAP 04.17.08, 6:15 AM ET Shares of IBM Corp. and eBay Inc. are poised for active trading on Thursday, as earnings season ramps up. …Stocks rally on earnings reportsAXcess NewsSentiment Signals More SoftnessForbesall 8 news articles More: continued here