Virgin Islands Daily News 2 new books deliver story of how post office made AmericaVirgin Islands Daily NewsLike Winifred Gallagher's “How the Post Office Created America,” Devin Leonard's “Neither Snow Nor Rain” sets out to chart the history and impact of the mail service in America. Both books map the …
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VentureBeat eBay buys inventory distribution company Ticket Utils, adding tech to StubHubVentureBeateBay today announced that it has acquired Ticket Utils, a company that built a system for managing the distribution of tickets to multiple services. eBay will be incorporating the technology into its subsidiary StubHub, with which Ticket Utils is …
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Local artist designs postage stamps in dream projectRochester Democrat and ChronicleChris Lyons was working on his dream project of illustrating a set of postage stamps when a giant box arrived at his door. Inside was a large car part, a quarter panel for a 1938 International Harvester D-2 pickup. The …
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