Post Office to offer new services

[vanman]

Post Offices will open for longer, allow customers to access their current account, and offer information for jobseekers, under government plans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11716429

Last month, the government announced that the Post Office was to receive £1.3bn of extra funding over the next four years to reform the network.

i thougth that they was selling the royal mail.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11258649
or is royal mail and the post office separate business

ok i see

The government also confirmed that the separate Post Office network would remain in state ownership.

[Osem]

Hmmm I wonder if that'll mean that the cashier's windows that are never open in our main post office (no matter how long the queues are) will be staffed at last. Nah,.... we'll just have to endure more queues I reckon.

I rather like these suggestions.

The organisation becoming a mutual body - owned by its customers and workers - at some point in the future

I think that might work very well especially in more rural areas.

Small, local shops providing some Post Office work

Already provided by our Local Co-op.Indeed if they hadn't stepped in we would have no Post office at all in this borough.

[punky]

I'd rather they practiced delivering the services they are currently supposed to before taking on new ones.

Like:

Adequately staffing the place
Hoovering the floor

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

I rather like these suggestions.



I think that might work very well especially in more rural areas.



Already provided by our Local Co-op.Indeed if they hadn't stepped in we would have no Post office at all in this borough.

Yes I can imagine that in some places these proposals could save post offices from closure.