- Bali topples Sri Lanka to lead the list of best value long haul destinations
- A 45 per cent price rise sees Sri Lanka fall behind South Africa, Vietnam and
- Thailand in Post Office® Long Haul Report
- Prices down in half of the destinations surveyed – by over a third in Jamaica
After three years at the top of the best value rankings, a 45per cent price rise in Sri Lankan resort co
- 22 million people in the UK have created a bucket list
- Travelling the world appears on the list for over half of people
- Great Barrier Reef is the number one dream travel destination
- One in twelve make a bucket list because of serious illness
Research from Post Office Life Insurance reveals almost 22 million people in the UK (44 per cent)* have created a ‘bucket list’ – a dream
- SMEs waste an average of £550 p.a. by failing to research business costs
- Post Office® International Payments Inertia Factor Report indicates that funds collectively lost by SMEs top £2.64 billion a year
- Fewer than two-in-five do competitive research to get the best deals
- Nearly two-thirds make payments overseas but only 28 per cent research these and three-quarters incur charges b
- Health Lottery tickets will be available at over 11,500 branches
- Players can collect winnings of up to £250 at any Post Office branch
From today, the Post Office will sell Health Lottery tickets in over 11,500 of its branches across the UK.
Customers wishing to take part in The Health Lottery will now be able to buy their tickets at all Post Office counters giving them not only the ch
- Zero per cent on balance transfers for the first 18 months
- New balance transfer deal could save customers an estimated £476
- Credit card continues to offer great benefits at home and abroad
Post Office today announces a new issue of its credit card which allows customers to transfer their balance without paying any interest for the first 18 months. By taking advantage of the new bala
- Response to Government announcement on Royal Mail privatisation
Kevin Gilliland, Network and Sales Director at the Post Office said:
“The privatisation of Royal Mail is a matter for the government. The Post Office and Royal Mail are now separate businesses but continue to work closely together. We have a contractual agreement to provide services on behalf of Royal Mail for some years to c
- Post Office® provides fast-track pre-paid postage service at over 11,000 branches across the whole of the UK
- Special discount available to new and existing Drop & Go customers until October 20
- Discount of 20 per cent when sending selected small and medium inland parcels continues as number of customers signing up to service increases
Customers taking advantage of the Post Office
- £228m wasted by 1.5m+ UK expats transferring money via UK banks
- Annual losses of £000s when bank charges are added to exchange rates
- Expat confidence remains low as living costs rise by an average of over eight per cent year-on-year
- House values still falling in Europe: by over 25 per cent for a quarter of UK homeowners in Spain
UK citizens living abroad
- Post Office continues to reduce mortgage rates across a range of fixed products
- Lowest two-year fixed rate deal is now 1.63%
- Post Office continues to offer customers some of the most competitive deals on the market with its latest raft of new mortgage rates.
The rate on its two-year fixed rate mortgage (60% LTVThis stands for Loan to Value. It’s the amount of mortgage expressed as a
- Vietnam tops the list of long haul success stories for summer 2013
- Destinations ‘Down Under’ complete the top three Fastest Growing Currencies
- South Africa benefits from weak rand while Dubai scores in Middle East
- Russian ruble is sole European entry in Post Office® Travel Money top ten
- Sterling at five-year high against Turkish lira but currency sales have fallen
- Jo Swinson today visits Uddingston Post Office near Glasgow to mark the milestone of 1,000 branch modernisations in the Network Transformation scheme*
- Post Office transforming thousands of branches as part of £1.34billion investment programme
- Customers across the UK are benefiting from improved branches and longer opening hours
- Post Office also signs a seven-year extension to prov
- Post Office seeks views on public purpose
The Post Office has been providing essential services to communities from tiny villages to large cities for almost 400 years. With around 11,700 branches, the Post Office operates the largest retail network in the UK and 99.7% of the population is within three miles of a Post Office branch. Every week around 18 million customers visit a Post office br
