Tag: Post Office Limited

Post Office Ltd today announced the appointment of Ric Francis as the company’s new Operations Director. Ric Francis has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT and operations sectors, and was most recently Chief Information Officer at Safeway Stores plc, where he was responsible for the company’s IT function.
His post as Operations Director for Post Office Ltd. is a newly-created role, combining IT and Network Support Services to optimise the company’s performance as the UK’s largest retail network. Mr Francis will sit on the Board of Post Office Ltd. and also the company’s Executive Committee.

The Post Office was accused yesterday of undermining its own network of sub-post offices with demands for huge levies and restrictions on the services branches can offer. Convenience store owners, many of which have recently taken over local post office services, said the demands by the state enterprise that they pay large commissions from their other commercial activities to the Post Office were a restrictive practice that could drive many to close the sub-post offices in their shops. Demands by the Post Office for bigger payments from convenience store owners were also discouraging independent shops and chains of convenience store owners from taking over post office services, depriving many areas of the country of a branch. Store owners said the move could lead to more closures – beyond the 2,500 already shut down or earmarked for closure – should only a few incentives remain for them to step in and take over the local franchise.