LUCKNOW: In a bid to make London Olympics 2012 truly memorable for all particularly sports lovers and philatelists, the department of post has come up with a set of four commemorative stamps that have captured the spirit of sportsmanship. Department of posts, has issued a set of four commemorative postal stamps and a souvenir sheet on London Olympics.

The set of four stamps show sports persons engaged in games like volleyball, rowing, sailing and badminton. Director, postal headquarters, UP, Sachin Kishor informed reporters that the stamps and souvenir sheet symbolize the athletic spirit. “The stamps would be available at the philatelic bureau at the general post office (GPO) and other post offices across the state.

via India post releases commemorative stamps on London Olympics – Times Of India.

Earlier this week the “21st Century Postal Worker”, an independent message exchange web site for APWU members, posted allegations of financial wrongdoing by some union officials. The posting was removed at the request of APWU lawyers, who insisted that the charges were unfounded, but the controversy continues.

Having acceded to the union’s request, the site’s owner, Randy Zelznick, an APWU member from Philadelpha, asked the union’s counsel to provide documentation that the charges were false. When, according to Zelznick, that didn’t happen, he asked the attorney to answer some more specific questions about the allegations. That prompted a letter from APWU counsel demanding that Zelznick retain any correspondence, emails, documents, etc., related to the accusations.

You can read the email exchange at the 21cpw.com web site.

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21st Century Postal Worker Exchange for Messages of General Union Business.

Bedfordshire’s cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton is being celebrated on a stamp.

Royal Mail is issuing the stamp to celebrate track cyclist Pendleton’s victory in the women’s keirin on Friday.

Royal Mail will also be painting a postbox gold in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, where Pendleton was born and brought up.

via BBC News – Pendleton is celebrated on stamp.

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The stamps – which show Anna and Katherine Grainger proudly displaying their medals – will be on sale in more than 500 Post Office branches across the UK from lunchtime tomorrow.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "This is a first for Royal Mail and we are proud to play our part in celebrating the many victories this summer."

via Commemorative stamp issued to mark Anna Watkins' 'fairytale' Olympic achievement | This is Staffordshire.

A Canada Post worker has ended up in the spotlight for eating and driving.

Two days after the Traffic Safety Coalition launched a four-week campaign advising motorists to not eat, drink, smoke, text, or talk on the phone while at the wheel, a photograph has emerged of a postal worker eating as he drove on Keele St.

via Postal worker caught eating while driving | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun.