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‘People power’ post office victory

Post office services in a tiny south Shropshire village have been saved, thanks to a “people power” campaign. A “hosted outreach facility” will be established in Lydbury North’s community-run village shop. The standard range of...

Thousands more post offices could close despite £900m benefits contract reprieve

Thousands more post offices could close despite receiving an apparent reprieve from the Government, it emerged) By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Some branches will go bust and the Royal Mail cannot find enough...

Royal Mail can afford to keep post office open say protesters

Published Date: 17 November 2008 CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Oxgangs Post Office claim a pledge from Royal Mail bosses shows there is no need for the branch to shut. The post office in Oxgangs Broadway was put forward for...

Post Office retains card account contract

The Government today ended months of speculation over the future of a card account used by millions of people to receive benefits and pensions by awarding the contract to the Post Office. The contract for the Post Office Card...

Final days for over 40 post offices

Forty-three post offices across the Black Country and Worcestershire will be closed by the start of December, the Express & Star can reveal today. Royal Mail today revealed the majority of the branches will close in the week...

MPs cheer as Post Office awarded Card Account contract

MPs today cheered the Government's decision to award a new contract for a card account used by millions of people to receive benefits and pensions to the Post Office. Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell said the...

Let's work together

THE result of the Highland Council's comprehensive submission to BT's proposed payphone removal program, is the excellent news that the majority of payphones at risk of removal in the Highland region have been retained.

Post Office doesn't back forces says Army officer

Published Date: 12 November 2008 ARMY officials and families of troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have criticised the proposed closure of Oxgangs Post Office As well as serving many elderly and vulnerable people in...

Lindsay Mackie: Lord Mandelson's plans to revitalise the Post Office could be an economic panacea

couldn't be more welcome. The business secretary says he wants the Post Office network to be built up and expanded, rather than neglected, pulled apart and run according to swivel-eyed free market principles – Government policy...

Post offices' services to change

The Post Office is to change services at two village outlets in Cornwall following a review. The branches at Week St Mary and Whitstone, near Holsworthy, are to go into partnership with Bude Post Office. This will result in...

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