"Royal Mail remains ready to meet the union leadership yet again at any time to explain our position and the reality of the open marketplace in which we now operate, " the company said.

BBC: NEWS | Business | Further strikes to hit Royal Mail

When you're ready, you can send out an e-mail to those people you've entrusted with your data should anything happen to you.

CNN: SHARE THIS

In a serendipitous moment, Maine fishing buddy David Kotok sent me this e-mail on the mortgage foreclosure crisis just as I was getting ready to write much the same thing.

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Across Florida, about 2, 000 absentee ballots are still out in Florida's 67 counties, locked up and ready to be counted after the last of Friday's mail arrives.

CNN: Florida counties expect about 2,000 absentee ballots

The 20 Most Popular Cities In The World To Visit In 2012 I was just getting ready to go on a European vacation when my e-mail pinged with a press release from MasterCard about the second annual list of the 20 most visited cities in the world.

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Jenel Lee, who owned a one-bedroom condominium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, received a postcard in the mail earlier this year from Sam Bryan, an agent representing a buyer that was ready to make an offer with a 50% down payment on a unit like hers.

WSJ: Home Prices Jump 10.9%, Largest Annual Gain in 7 Years

"It's not only the technology of the world's first ready-to-use PC, " Breker said in an e-mail to CNN.

CNN: Rare Apple 1 computer sold for $671,000

With its middleware Biddle software (based on the same DVB-GEM spec as OCAP, and also available to cable operators) included on a Blu-ray disc, the company claims its ready to deliver an "interactive TV service" consisting of VOD, web browsing, e-mail, social networking access or nearly anything else you can imagine.

ENGADGET: Dreamer's Biddle makes Blu-ray players a way around your cable company?