UK GOVERNMENT: Byers paves way for 21st century Post Office.

M2 Presswire;  July 8, 1999 ;     675 words ......detailed in the Post Office White Paper will give the Post Office the greater commercial...Copies of the Post Office Reform White Paper are available...set out in the White Paper may be sent to: The Post Office Reform Team ...

Dithering over the Post Office.(disagreement about whether to privatize or...

The Economist (US);  July 10, 1999 ;     420 words ......government's much delayed white paper on the future of the Post Office was finally published...or all of the Post Office could be sold...agreement. The white paper is no less schizophrenic...postal services. Post Office managers are privately...commercial ...

Post Office plans held back as DTI battles with Treasury

The Independent - London;  June 28, 1999 ;     258 words ...PLANS FOR a White Paper this week setting out how the Post Office will be given more commercial...forced to postpone the White Paper because of Whitehall wrangling...regulator body to police the Post Office, and plans to beef up the consumer watchdog, the Post ...

Outlook: Short changing the Post Office

The Independent - London;  July 9, 1999 ;     351 words ......long-delayed White Paper on reform of the Post Office yesterday...Anchorage. The Post Office chairman...granny, the White Paper is not all...in what the Post Office can spend...declared the White Paper to be a "decisive...

City: Post Office to be a plc

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 4, 1999 ;     327 words ......planning to transform the Post Office into a public limited...will be privatised. A White Paper to be published this...dividend paid by the Post Office to the Treasury each...to be pounds 20m. The White Paper will confirm that the Post Office monopoly will ...

Post Office to deliver on super-highway

The Independent - London;  July 4, 1999 ;     452 words ......unveil plans to turn the Post Office into a key player in the...information highway. "The Post Office story has run as a privatisation...history." In a long-awaited White Paper, Mr Byers will appease opponents of the Post Office's privatisation by guaranteeing...private ...

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...

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...

Bungling bosses wipe a big town off their map; ENGLAND'S 50th LARGEST...

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...

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...

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...

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...

POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS HAVE LOST THEIR BATTLE; 10,000-name petition fails...

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...

Post Office gets 1bn pounds for 'fresh start'

The Scotsman;  December 8, 1998 ;     567 words ......series of measures designed to give the Post Office a "fresh start". The immediate effect...40 per cent reduction in the money the Post Office gives to the Treasury for the 1999-2000...GBP 335 million to GBP 207 million. The Post Office had been pressing for a cut to fund ...

Retirement means uphill battle to save post office ; There has been a post...

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...