Canada Post is honouring a number of legendary NHL defencemen from the league's Original Six era with its latest collection of postage stamps. Longtime Boston Bruins great Bobby Orr is featured along with Tim Horton, Pierre Pilote, Red Kelly, Doug Harvey and Harry Howell. The latest issue, unveiled Thursday at the Hockey Hall of Fame,…
Plans to redevelop part of the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant sorting office in London for housing are given the green light by mayor Boris Johnson. More: continued here
New York Daily News NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain set to appear on postage stampNew York Daily NewsPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wilt Chamberlain has been cut down to size. Wilt The Stilt is now Wilt The Stamp. The Hall of Famer and the only NBA player to score 100 points in a game is set to appear…
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Federal court considers guns in post officesNBC26.tvA three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case involving Tab Bonidy, a licensed gun owner who, along with the National Association for Gun Rights, sued the Postal Service in 2010 over its ban on guns in post…and more » More: continued here
The Albany Herald MAYOR DOROTHY HUBBARD: Hard work pays off for Downtown Albany post…The Albany HeraldDuring the first week in October 2012, I read in The Albany Herald that the Downtown Post Office would close by Dec. 2, 2012. Shocked, I proceeded to check with other elected officials to determine if they knew or had…
Royal Mail to increase Small Parcel format for ChristmasPost and ParcelFrom 20 October, the Royal Mail maximum Small Parcel format will be much bigger in size. This means that consumers and SMEs will be able to put bigger items – or more items – into every Small Parcel they send by Royal Mail. The change…
EBay To Split Off Lucrative PayPal BusinessNewsFactor NetworkThe move comes after months of pressure from activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn, who has a 2.5 percent stake in eBay, according to FactSet. EBay CEO John Donahoe had been adamant that splitting off PayPal was the wrong move for the company. More: continued here
Boston magazine’s Boston Daily (blog) Historic Somerville Post Office Could Become Arts and Food SpaceBoston magazine’s Boston Daily (blog)Somerville's historic Post Office in Union Square, which closed its doors due to budgeting issues, has been scooped up by an investment firm that represents one of the area's most well-known supporters of live music and entertainment….
TSA Kangaroo Court Rubber Stamps TSA Fining Guy Who Stripped Naked …TechdirtA couple years ago, we wrote about a guy named John Brennan (who, we're pretty damn sure is not the John Brennan who is now director of the CIA) who decided to strip naked at a TSA screening area in an airport to protest…