Article: Drug-alcohol mix worries niece

Article: Country Matters: Post office? It's next to the potatoes
The Independent - London;  June 25, 1994 ;     700+ words ...THE post office in our Suffolk village shop is open...Street has been closed. The biggest post office in the main market town serving a couple...Ipswich, our county town, where the main post office, a Corinthian horror described by Pevsner...

Article: Bungling bosses wipe a big town off their map; ENGLAND'S 50th LARGEST COMMUNITY IS LEFT WITHOUT A MAIN POST OFFICE AFTER A LEASE FIASCO - AND FURIOUS CUSTOMERS ARE GIVEN TWO DAYS' NOTICE.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 28, 2004 ;     471 words ...Byline: JO THORNHILL The Post Office, still reeling from outrage over a wave...widespread branch network. And a bungle by Post Office bosses that led to the closure of the largest post office in Romford, Essex, last week, has done nothing...

Article: Post office learns its fate.
Eastbourne Herald (Eastbourne, England);  January 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ...THE Post Office has ignored the pleas of hundreds of...open. The fight to keep Willingdon Post Office open has ended unsuccessfully. Months...hundreds of signatures, failed to persuade Post Office bosses to retain the popular post office...

Article: Fighting the new wreckers&; Pictures: RICHARD LAPPAS ANGER: Peter Allen is leading the battle to keep the post office at Altarnun, while Widemouth Bay's subpostmastercum-fishmonger Shane Wilkins, right, faces an uncertain future.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ......STEPHEN WOMACK THE current wave of post office closures has sparked anger and protest...classic example of how the value of a post office cannot be calculated solely in pounds...who is leading the fight to keep the post office open, says: 'Altarnun is ranked as one...

Article: Honours For Top Post Office(R) Branches.
PR Newswire Europe;  October 24, 2005 ;     622 words ...LONDON, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Post Office(R) branches have beaten stiff competition...the country. The prize for best sub Post Office(R) went to West Monkseaton branch near...took the title of best directly managed Post Office(R) branch. The judges were particularly...

Article: 'We'll pay pounds75,000 to keep post office open'
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  May 14, 2008 ;     473 words ...A LAST-ditch bid to save Uplands Post Office has been launched by Stroud Town Council...000 on the table' as a challenge to Post Office Ltd to keep the Uplands branch open...consider running a rival 'community post office' at Uplands Post Office, Springfield...

Article: Package with a message: there's more to the Post Office than the UK's postal service, but only a small share of its customers are aware of this. Damian Schogger asks how it is increasing awareness. (News Analysis).
Design Week;  August 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Post Office has undergone a series of changes both...Marketplace Design's appointment as the Post Office's brand consultant is the latest step...a wider audience within the UK. The Post Office, which generates annual revenues of...

Article: BENCHMARK - POST OFFICE: Life in the old dog yet.
Marketing Week;  February 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Post Office's move into new product areas is designed...older customers. By Robert Lester The Post Office has been forced to broaden its horizons...travel and financial services, the Post Office is looking to become a major player...

Article: Steps should be taken now to safeguard post office network.(Business)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 14, 2007 ;     622 words ...Byline: By Russell Lawson The post office network is extensive. There are 8,000...many other outlets. Most recently, the Post Office lost the contract to supply TV licences...policies has meant that since 1997, 6,000 post office branches have closed. This equates to...

Article: Still time to join fight for village post office
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 11, 2008 ;     384 words ...The case for keeping a post office in Abbotskerswell has taken steps...There were two representatives from Post Office Ltd, one from Postwatch, parish...the importance of writing to the Post Office to help to save it from closure...

Article: What post office needs is organized customersBeen to the post office
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  January 13, 1997 ;     589 words ...What post office needs is organized customers Been to the post office lately? That's Uncle Sam's admirable apothecary...has thought of "wanted poster wallpaper" yet. The post office has those nice machines in the lobby that sell stamps...

Article: POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS HAVE LOST THEIR BATTLE; 10,000-name petition fails to save branch.(News)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 29, 2003 ;     416 words ...Byline: Mark Stead THE Post Office has been accused of ignoring its...from people who use Albany Road Post Office - including a petition signed by...will lose its status as a Crown post office when Vias Sharma, trading as DVS...

Article: Post Office gets 1bn pounds for 'fresh start'
The Scotsman;  December 8, 1998 ;     567 words ...THE Post Office will have an extra GBP 1 billion to...series of measures designed to give the Post Office a "fresh start". The immediate effect...per cent reduction in the money the Post Office gives to the Treasury for the 1999...

Article: Retirement means uphill battle to save post office ; There has been a post office in the sprawling Townstal residential and industrial estate on the edge of Dartmouth for close on 70 years.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 11, 2008 ;     644 words ...There has been a post office in the sprawling Townstal residential...elderly residents stranded - the nearest post office being at the bottom of a steep hill. Opponents of the closure want Post Office Ltd to reconsider its position and have...