A minister wants HSBC and Santander to allow customers to withdraw cash from the Post Office but the banks are questioning demand.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Sep 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Millions of ordinary people could get the chance to own and run the national network of 11,500 Post Office branches, under new government plans.
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Telegraph on 19th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
GOVERNMENT plans for the Royal Mail include moving the Post Office into mutual ownership.
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Scotsman on 18th Sep 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
âUntil August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country for ever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his mone...
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Samizdata on 2nd Aug 2011 (via samizdata.net)
The future of the Post Office was called into question on Wednesday night, after MPs claimed it would be a "catastrophe" if it lost its link with the Royal Mail under privatisation plans.
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Telegraph on 12th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
MORE than 1,000 post offices have shut or been put up for sale this year, with some not showing up in official closure lists, according to new research.
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Scotsman on 28th Dec 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
John Denham MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, speaking at the CWU lobby of Parliament today, stepped up Labour’s campaign to secure long term business for the post office network.
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LabourParty on 15th Dec 2010 (via www2.labour.org.uk)
So, I’m in the post office, long queue, start reading the “Argos style” catalogue they’ve got. Buy books, coffee makers, slipper and bathrobe sets, that sort of thing. Come across a “home distillation kit”. And yes, it’s for making booze, not essential oils of citrus or anything. They do things a bit different when in
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TimWorstall on 15th Dec 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Editor’s note: the author of this post has requested to remain anonymous, but his identity is known to me. I write as a lifelong Liberal/Lib Dem and former councillor. I am sadly having to remain anonymous so that my wife is not made subject to reprisals for my views. Lib Dem Voice recently claimed the
Labour MP John Denham has warned that Government plans to privatise Royal Mail – which will be going before Parliament on Wednesday - could spell the end of the post office network. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In rushing through the privatisation of the Royal Mail, this Tory-led Government is giving no safeguards to our Post Office network. "These plans will result ...
