UK’s Post Office Ltd to roll out 6,000 new-style post offices
Friday, March 9th, 2012
The UK’s Post Office Ltd has announced plans to roll out thousands of new-style “main” and “local” post office branches across the country from this summer.
The plans are to be funded by part of the previously-announced GBP 1.34bn cash injection from the government, and therefore remain subject to “state aid” approval from Europe.
It will all kick off with an expansion of the current pilot for the new-style main post offices and slimmed-down local post offices. Some 50 new local and main branches will be trialled from now until the summer, in addition to the 117 new post offices already being piloted.
From the summer until 2015, Post Office Ltd then intends to roll out 4,000 main branches and 2,000 local branches among its 11,800-strong network