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Find the best post offices in Britain

Posted by | Aug 20, 2006 | |

Your local post office could be based in an unusual venue such as a pub, tearoom, church, or farmyard. Or maybe you live in a city and value the friendly service of your busy urban branch. Whatever the case, your Post Office needs you.

In a nationwide competition organised by the Post Office and launched by TV presenter Ben Fogle, customers are being asked to nominate the best rural, urban and most innovative branches.

Your local post office could be based in an unusual venue such as a pub, tearoom, church, or farmyard. Or maybe you live in a city and value the friendly service of your busy urban branch. Whatever the case, your Post Office needs you.

Prizes will be awarded in six categories. There is one for the best rural branch, the best town or city branch, and the best main branch directly managed by Post Office Ltd. Then there is the ‘above and beyond’ prize for the staff and branch that has gone the extra mile for its customers, a charity and fundraising prize for the one that has done the most for charity or community action, and finally a ‘most innovative’ branch award.

Cash prizes of between Pounds 500 and Pounds 1,000 will be made to regional finalists and national winners will also receive a prize of Pounds 1,000 with the same sum donated to a local charity or community project of their choice. The prize money goes to postmasters, who can distribute it as they wish.

With the network of post office branches in chronic decline, what better way to send a message of support than vote for your own?

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Post Office hopes more people will use self-service machines

Posted by | Aug 16, 2006 | |

Self checkout lines are becoming more and more popular at grocery stores, and the U.S. Postal Service is working to join the trend of encouraging people to do it themselves.

The Post Office hopes to develop greater awareness of “Automated Postal Centers”. They were set up in three Roanoke area post offices more than 18 months ago, but so far, their use has not met expectations.

The APC’s allow you to buy stamps and place many packages in the mail 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can find them at the Main Post Office near the Roanoke Civic Center, the Cave Spring branch, and the Hollins branch on Williamson Road.

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Post Office set to join broadband bandwagon

Posted by | Aug 11, 2006 | |

The Post Office could be set to join the broadband revolution, after reports yesterday said it was set to move into the crowded market for high-speed internet access.

“We look at lots of opportunities in the market, and broadband is naturally one of those things you would look at, but there’s absolutely no decision,” spokesman David Simpson said.

Telecoms analysts suggested that the Post Office, which already offers a fixed-line telephone service in conjunction with Cable & Wireless – HomePhone – in direct competition with BT, was poised to announce the move.

The battle for broadband customers has intensified in recent months. BSkyB launched its own high-speed internet product last month and, in April, Carphone Warehouse entered the fray by offering its “free” broadband service Talk Talk as part of a bundle with line calls and rental.

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Post office® boosts Instant Saver rate to 5%

Posted by | Aug 3, 2006 | |

From 29th August 2006 the Post Office® is increasing the rate on its Instant Saver account from 4.75% to 5.0%*, in line with the new Bank of England base rate rise.

The rate will be available to new and existing Instant Saver customers.

Richard Norman, Head of Savings, said: “The Post Office® is committed to offering customers great value and we want to pass this new rate on to savers as soon as possible so they get the most out of their money.”

Post Office® Instant Saver is guaranteed to remain within 1.0% of the Bank of England base rate and the account offers six free withdrawals a year with a flat fee of just GBP 1 for future withdrawals.

Instant Saver is available at all of the UK’s 14,300 Post Office® branches, by telephone and online. Withdrawals can be made both at branches and ATMs, offering unrivalled choice and convenience.

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Holding the folding : UK prefers cash over plastic on holiday

Posted by | Aug 1, 2006 | |

Holidaymakers are set to splash the cash overseas with bumper currency sales of GBP2.3 billion forecast for this year according to a new Post Office® report. In fact, one in every fifteen pounds of the total GBP34 billion spent overseas this year will be bought from the Post Office®.

Launched today, the report shows cash is still the UK’s number one way to pay abroad. Almost half (47 per cent) prefer to use local currency compared to 33.6 per cent who prefer to “put it on the plastic” using their debit or credit card.

Although Traveller’s Cheques are still popular with 19 per cent of holidaymakers, as plastic becomes more popular they are slowly declining, with sales dropping by almost 12 per cent last year. Despite this, euro Travellers’ Cheque sales grew by 7.7 per cent last year .

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