Tag: Post Office Limited

Chapter 1 Network overview
1/ Introduction 8
2/ Post Office Ltd finances 8
3/ Post Office Ltd efficiencies 9
4/ Directly Managed Branches 11
5/ Direct Payment Programme &
the Post Office Card Account 12
6/ Opportunities from competition in postal services 19
7/ Innovations from abroad 20
Chapter 2 Banking and new products
1/ Introduction 26
2/ Banking 26
3/ Update on new Financial Products 30
4/ Advertising the network 31
5/ Innovation and other new products 31
Chapter 3 Urban Network
1/ Introduction 40
2/ The Urban Reinvention Programme 40
3/ Support fund for urban deprived Post Offices 47
4/ Other grants and schemes for the urban network 50
5/ Supermarkets and convenience stores 53
6/ Studies by others on the urban network 54
Chapter 4 Rural Network
1/ Introduction 60
2/ Funding the rural network to 2006 60
3/ Other Rural Funding 61
4/ Closures 62
5/ Rural Research 63
6/ Rural Transfer Advisers & Community Action 65
7/ Pilot Projects & alternatives to ‘traditional’
Post Offices 67
8/ Devolved Administrations 69
9/ Future of the rural network 70
Chapter 5 Network Change
1/ Introduction 76
2/ Network change 78
3/ Post Office market 80
4/ Subpostmasters resigning 82
5/ Subpostmaster current and future issues 85
6/ Customer impact 88
7/ Re-opening of Post Office branches 90
8/ The Regional Picture 92
Annex A
Recommendations in last year’s report 95
Annex B
Postcomm’s recommendations on the future
of the rural network 97
Annex C
Statement by the Secretary of State for Trade
and Industry, September 2004 99
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Postcomm believes Post Office Ltd is making good progress in developing the commercial potential of the network – but there is some way to go before this can compensate for continued financial support from the government. New products and services are providing a lifeline for many Post Offices but for others there remains insufficient demand for these services. These are some of the conclusions from Postcomm’s fourth annual report on the Post Office network. The report, to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, comes at the end of a year which has seen implementation of the urban reinvention programme and improvements for remaining urban Post Offices to give them a
more secure future, financial support for Post Offices in urban deprived areas, the development of banking facilities and a wide range of new products and services for customers at Post Office branches, growing concern about the future of the Directly Managed Branches and extension of the funding package for the rural network to help sustain rural post office branches and support pilots to inform the government’s longer term plans.