Labour AM Ann Jones has congratulated Henllan Post Office for its successful application to the new Post Office Diversification Fund. The Post Office is one of the first to be awarded part of a new £4.5m fund to help sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses diversify and improve their facility. The fund, which will run for three years and is open to every sub post office in Wales, aims to help...

Labour’s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, has announced that the Post Office has been awarded the contract to continue providing the Post Office Card Account (POCA). The Labour Government has taken the decision to help secure a viable Post Office network by awarding the five-year contract directly to the Post Office. Four million people, including two million pensione...

The split at the very heart of the Labour Party over the Post Office looks like it might be spilling out on to the Labour blogs that can eeasily be influenced. Take for example this very long blog post by Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East. The entire post reads like a briefing paper written by someone like Peter Mandelson or one of his SpAds. The headings of the post look suspiciously lieka cut ...

I have been pressing Camden Council to step in and prevent the closure of Albany Street Post Office, also in today's Daily Mirror "Mandy Post Office Shuts." Here's the letter I wrote to the Lib Dem/Tory leadership, normally very active on Post Office issues in the borough, to ask if our lawyers could step in to injuct the Post Office Ltd not to close until a suitable replacement was foun...

Sheffield Attercliffe MP Clive Betts has demanded a high-level meeting with Post Office managers in London following the temporary closure of Tinsley Post Office. Clive Betts said: "I have been in correspondence with the Post Office over many months about the problems of Tinsley Post Office, its very difficult location and the requests by the sub-postmaster for assistance in moving to more appropr...

Nicolson Street Post Office is to close.  The Post Office will today announce that all bar one of the Post Offices earmarked for closure will be closed.  The Nicolson Street Post Office will close - though it is likely that the pharmacy will remain.  The details of the Post Office response to the consultation will be posted here (though at the time of writing the file has not been p...

The Post Office is being really inflexible and insisting on closing a small branch post office on Albany Street, NW1. The post office, based in a popular local pharmacy, serves the Regent's Park estate. The reason? The sub postmaster can't afford to open for just 4 hours on Saturdays any more. Because it is too costly to open on Saturdays, the Post Office have taken the decision to termi...

Drop post office privatisation, Labour warned Dave Prentis has joined with the leaders of the affiliated trade unions to warn, in a letter to the Guardian, that the government must honour its pledges and keep the post office public.The letter says: At Warwick University, in the summer of 2008, the...

I've distributed a survey to every house across the Hornsey & Wood Green constituency asking people to record how long they have to queue at the Post Office. I want to get a comprehensive assessment of the level of service following the spate of Post Office closures (five serving the area have gone). The findings of the survey will be presented to the Post Office and - if they show unacceptabl...

The new ticketing system at Camden Town Post Office is clearly failing. See this picture taken yesterday at 5.30pm with scores of older people and families waiting in line of just standing about until their number is called. Some, who are hard of hearing, might even miss their number unless they are paying close attention. No word yet from the Post Office Limited on a new post office for Regent�...