Article: A united front on PO closures ; Customers at a city post office are fighting to keep it open - stressing they simply can't get to the next nearest branch.

Article: Villagers go to town in post office protest
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 9, 2008 ;     579 words ......protesters descended on Newton Abbot Post Office to demonstrate how difficult life will...potential problems if their village post office closes down. They made the two and a...Cost Cutters in Queen Street, where the post office is located. Protest organiser Liz Taylor...

Article: Barnwood post office to be closed
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  January 19, 2009 ;     570 words ......fight is on to keep an important city post office open. Plans have been announced to close Barnwood Post Office in March after the owners revealed...axe. Four years ago it was placed on Post Office closure list before it was handed a...

Article: Stamp down on post office closure
Bristol Evening Post;  August 9, 2004 ;     325 words ...Campaigners were planning to protest today outside a post office earmarked for closure. More than 500 people have signed petitions calling for Post Office Ltd to drop its plans to shut the post office in Filton Avenue, Horfield. Bristol city councillor...

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: How to make a success of running a local post office: post offices are an important part of communities across the UK but to run them well retailers need to make sure they offer new products and services and be prepared to invest some money.(Retail Surgery)
Grocer;  April 19, 2008 ;     570 words ......Holborn Owner, Holborns We took over the post office in our village in 2006 after the original...money to make space for it. Having a post office is important to a c-store like ours...shop's place in the community. If the post office had gone, people would have had to go...

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: Analysis: Celebrities to the rescue of ailing Post Office.
Marketing Week;  October 4, 2007 ;     594 words ...The Post Office's new celebrity-led advertising push comes as the...actress Joan Collins, and are designed to make the Post Office more appealing to a prime-time audience. The Post Office has the largest retail network in the UK, with...

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...