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CHERRY/SHEFFIELD — The U.S. Postal Service has completed its meetings in seven Bureau County communities and presented plans to reduce retail window service hours in six of those post offices. More: continued here

BT.com How to change your eBay passwordBT.comIn May, online auction site eBay became the latest web giant to fall victim to an attack from hackers. The security breach compromised the account details of 145 million users around the world, leaving encrypted data in the hands of lord-knows-who. More: continued here

Slate Magazine (blog) The US Stamp Committee Is (Still) Up in Arms About a Harry Potter StampSlate Magazine (blog)This morning, the Washington Post reported that former Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar had resigned from his position on the Citizen's Advisory Stamp Committee over a decision to put Harry Potter on …

Agri-Pulse US Postal Service Celebrates America's Farmers Markets with New Forever …Sierra Sun Times“For years the Postal Service has celebrated — through the power of stamps— America's agricultural abundance,” said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. “Postage stamps have depicted fruit, flowers, corn and a bread wagon. Today, we're celebrating …USPS releases farmers …

Former eBay SEO Head Joins Searchmetrics, Shares Search Marketing …MediaPost CommunicationsJordan Koene, eBay's former global head of SEO and content development, has joined Searchmetrics as the company's Evangelist to help marketers better understand and plan how to take full advantage of search media. Koene, once responsible for … More: continued here

WTAE Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers' player swamps post office with autograph pledgeThe Express-Times – lehighvalleylive.comThe post office at the small college where the Pittsburgh Steelers hold training camp has been swamped with mail since wide receiver Antonio Brown vowed on Facebook to autograph anything fans send him. Brown posted the message …

Final post office meetings heldBureau County RepublicanAt last week's community meeting in Cherry, U.S. Postal Service representative Donna Sherwood said the Cherry Post Office customers will see a reduction of weekday open window hours from seven hours to four hours, Monday through Friday. The likely … More: continued here

Harry Potter has millions of fans. Benjamin F. Bailar is not one of them. The 80-year-old former postmaster general and avid stamp collector sent a letter last month to Patrick Donahoe, the current postmaster general, berating the United States Postal Service for including the boy wizard on its postage stamps. …

Dwindling letter volumes means many post boxes no longer cover their costs, so between 45,000 – 50,000 will be emptied earlier, while rural Scotland and Northern Ireland will get new boxes. More: continued here

UPDATED // Hawaii Island post offices will be open during regular business hours on Friday. Management has earlier directed offices to close by noon to… More: continued here