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Lifehacker Australia Remember, You Can Sell Your Broken Gadgets On eBayLifehacker AustraliaWhen something breaks, checking past eBay auctions for “as is” and “not working” items (to see if similar items have sold before) should be your first stop. In the past year, I've sold a broken speaker set for $30, …

Post Office Submits Detailed Proposal For New Canaan SiteThe Daily VoiceDevelopers have submitted a proposal for a permanent U.S. Post Office in New Canaan more than a year after closing its location in town, according to the New Canaan News. The plans submitted are for a two-story building with 8,220 …

Philadelphia Magazine (blog) The 10 Most Insane Lilly Pulitzer for Target Auctions on Ebay Right NowPhiladelphia Magazine (blog)Already, there are over 28,000 results for Lilly Pulitzer for Target on Ebay. Let's see what you can buy, shall we? Here are 10 hilariously marked-up items that you can buy or bid …

Potholes prompted W.Va. post office to quit mail serviceWashington TimesPostmaster Tara Silver says in the letter she's concerned about the safety of mail carriers. Silver suggests the property owners along Broad Lane relocate their mailboxes to another location or rent a mailbox at the post office. Resident Bobbi Hart …and …

City Journal The Food Stamp PirouetteCity JournalSome might say spending $80 billion to expand food stamp enrollment and leave the official poverty rate untouched was the whole idea: if the program dramatically reduced measured poverty and food insecurity, people might think that these problems are … More: continued here

Potholes prompted W.Va. post office to quit mail serviceseattlepi.comFALLING WATERS, W.Va. (AP) — Poor road conditions have prompted mail service to be suspended along a Berkeley County development. Media outlets report a local postmaster wrote to about three dozen property owners in Falling Waters that mail …and more » More: continued here

Shape Magazine What Gwyneth Paltrow's Food Stamps Failure Taught UsShape MagazineThe social media challenge tasks participants to live off $29 a week to experience what it's like for a family to be entirely reliant on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (better known as food stamps). Paltrow, along with Mario …

The Columbian Produce shares made available to people who use food stampsThe ColumbianPlenty of farmers markets accept food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and they have for years. But it's less common for farms to offer the same option for CSA shares, which allow customers to buy …

Stolen CentCom computers were found on eBayTampabay.comTAMPA — The internal theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base went undetected until a supplier noticed four of them advertised on eBay, according to federal court records.and more » More: continued here

Post office custodian admits to stealing vets' medicineThe Virginian-PilotA post office custodian pleaded guilty last week to stealing boxes of pain medication destined for veterans. Carles Burton, 39, is to be sentenced July 22 in U.S. District Court in Newport News. The packages stolen from the Patrick Henry Station post… …