Tag: Post Office

Post Office® cuts the cost of credit card spending abroad

Posted by | Oct 1, 2006 | |

People using a Post Office® Credit Card will get an even better deal from Monday (2nd October 2006).

When shoppers use the card abroad, they’ll no longer be charged commission.

As the UK’s leading travel money business, the Post Office® wants to give customers an even better deal on their travels.

What’s more, the interest-free period for balance transfers has been extended from six to eight months. And for three months customers will be charged no interest on new purchases.

After this period, Classic card customers will move on to a standard rate of 14.9% APR and Platinum card holders move on to 13.9% APR. So even when the interest rate ends, customers can benefit from one of the best rates on the market.

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Post Office® Ants set to raise funds for hospices across the country

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Post Office Ltd is producing a range of special edition pin badges in a new initiative to raise funds for its major supported charity, Help the Hospices. Funds raised will be split between a number of local hospices across the country.

The rubber badges feature the Post Office®’s well-known family of ants, with each one waving a ‘Help the Hospices’ placard. They will be on sale in 500 Post Office® branches across the UK for two months from today (25 September) for a suggested minimum donation of GBP1.

Six different badges are being produced, each featuring different characters from the Post Office® ant family. One of the badges, featuring the twins, will be available only as a special edition for collectors. Some 3,000 of these special collectable badges will be available via mail order from Help the Hospices (tel 0207 520 8245 or email [email protected]).

Branch staff are also being encouraged to sell the badges through an internal competition, with a prize for the branch that sells the most.

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Watchdog ups stakes over post office closures

Posted by | Sep 15, 2006 | |

The postal regulator has stepped up pressure on the government over rural post office closures by rebuking it for delay and short-termism.

Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm, which has an advisory role to the government on the post office network, said yesterday on a visit to Scotland it would be publishing a major report next month. “It will be hard-hitting,” he said.

MPs and MSPs were already putting pressure on the government to ensure it was “an issue they can’t dodge”, he said, adding: “The problem is that by having left it as long as it has been left to produce a solution, the solution will be more difficult and probably more costly than if there had been a little more thinking at an earlier stage.” He said a government consultation had been promised before the summer, then put off until the autumn. “It is a continually slipping clock,” he said.

Royal Mail has said a strictly commercial network would mean axing over 10,000 post offices out of the current 14,500 when the GBP150m annual subsidy runs out in 18 months’ time.

Mr Stapleton said: “Hopefully that is a scare number to get the government to face things.”

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Post Office strike threat

Posted by | Aug 23, 2006 | |

Swansea’s two biggest post offices are bracing themselves for shutdown in a growing row over plans to move the city’s big Kingsway branch.

Staff have voted in favour of industrial action at a string of Crown post offices.

Details of exactly what form the action will take should emerge within 24 hours.

But it could force the temporary closure of The Kingsway, Morriston, Neath, Port Talbot, Llanelli and Carmarthen branches.

It would mean problems for customers who use them for anything from picking up benefit payments to applying for passports and renewing their car tax.

Union bosses say the action is in response to the proposed deal between the Post Office and WH Smith which would see The Kingsway office shut and move to the first floor of the Quadrant store.

On Saturday, 29 staff at The Kingsway’s post office braved downpours to stage a five-hour protest ahead of the controversial move that is planned for October 5.

Thousands of Swansea residents have signed a petition calling for bosses to scrap the proposal.

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Financial winners and losers in post shake-up

Posted by | Aug 22, 2006 | |

Today is the Royal Mail’s red letter day. The price of post will now depend on the size of what you are sending.

The new system has three categories.

The letter classification, with maximum 5mm thickness, is equivalent to a standard birthday card and the large letter, 25mm, around the depth of a monthly magazine.

The packet category covers anything larger.

The Royal Mail has predicted more than 85% of stamped mail will be the same price or cheaper than the old system.

The new pricing structure is called “Pricing In Proportion”.

Ian McKay, Royal Mail’s director of Scottish affairs, said one of the easiest ways to save money under the new rules was to fold all A4 items in half and put them in a C5 envelope.

Watchdog body Postwatch said there would be financial “winners and losers”.

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