Decisions on Northern Ireland Post Office® branches
Post Office Ltd today (Tuesday, 3 June) announced decisions on the future of Post Office® branches across Northern Ireland following a six-week public consultation that ended on 12 May 2008.
Post Office services will be provided through a network of 496 branches, which supports the national accessibility criteria introduced by the Government and ensures that over 94.1% of the population in Northern Ireland will see no change.
The plan confirmed today means that 38 branches will close in Northern Ireland with the first closures scheduled to take place in July 2008. These branches were detailed in the Area Plan proposal published on 1 April 2008. Post Office Limited is also confirming the creation of 53 outreach Post Office services.
Four branches originally proposed for closure – Parkhall Post Office, Strathroy Post, The Throne Post Office and Attical Post Office, which was originally proposed for replacement by an outreach service, – will now remain open following a review of the issues raised during public consultation.
During the six-week public consultation, Post Office Limited received approximately 4,500 responses and attended 97 meetings with customers and their representatives to understand customers’ concerns and to ensure that all the information provided by customers formed part of the final decision regarding each affected branch.
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