New Network Director for the Post Office

Retail executive Paula Vennells, who has worked with many of the UK’s leading consumer brands, has joined the Post Office® in the key role of Network Director.

She brings with her a wealth of experience from a range of companies including the Whitbread Group, Argos, Great Universal Stores, Sears, Dixons Stores Group, Reed International and Lunn Poly.

Paula, who also joins the Post Office Executive Team, said: “I’m very pleased to be joining the Post Office and to be taking on a central role in a network that serves 24m customers a week.”

She will report to Post Office Managing Director Alan Cook, who said: “I’m delighted to welcome Paula. She has the skills and background that make her ideally equipped for the job.”

Paula has a BA Honours degree in Russian, French and Economics from the University of Bradford and a post-graduate diploma in Theology from Oxford University. She is married with two children.

About the Post Office®
With around 14,300 branches across the country, the Post Office® is the UK’s largest retail and financial services chain. Its network is larger than all of the UK’s banks and building societies put together. Around 94 per cent of the UK population lives within a mile of a Post Office® branch and 24 million customers visit every week.

In conjunction with its partners, the Post Office® offers over 170 products and services including travel and financial services (including personal loans, car, home and travel insurance and a new “2 in 1” credit card), banking services, bill payments, HomePhone (its home telephone service), gift vouchers and cards, lottery products, licence applications, phonecards and mobile phone top-ups, and postal services. It is the largest supplier of foreign currency in the UK and is a leading provider of travel insurance.

The Post Office® is also the biggest cash handler in the country with more than £92 billion passing through its hands each year. 17p in every £1 in circulation goes through a Post Office® branch and around 400 million household bills are paid at Post Office® branches each year.

To find out where your nearest Post Office® branch is call 08457-22 33 44.

www.postoffice.co.uk