10 cheapest cities: Tirana, Katowice, Vilnius, Lisbon, Riga, Warsaw, Zagreb, Budapest, Bratislava and Krakow
Led by Tirana, Eastern European cities take nine of the best value top 10 places in 13th annual Post Office City Costs Barometer (www.postoffice.co.uk/citycosts)
Lisbon is best in the West, breaking the Eastern stranglehold to take fourth place
Strong pound boosts UK tourists’ buying po
Post Offices handled £1.03 billion in business cash deposits in August, the highest amount recorded so far this year, despite August traditionally being a quieter month for banking services Business cash deposits were up 2.2% month-on-month and up 23.5% compared with August 2020 as international travel uncertainty meant more cash spent locally at hospitality venues. Recent Post Office survey fou
Post Office has today announced that customers can now collect parcels and letters from Post Offices using an app on their phone to show their ID
Post Office has appointed to its Board a new Non-Executive Director, Ben Tidswell.
A new agreement between the Post Office and DPD will see parcels delivered directly to its branches providing a quick and convenient location for people to collect their purchases.
All Inclusive trips are top choice but extras add hundreds to holiday costs
More than two-in-five UK adults are still planning holidays abroad in the coming months
But past overspending means holidaymakers are likely to blow budgets by a record 40% according to the latest Holiday Spending Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/holidayspending)
Over a third of those planning trips will go All Inclusi
The Post Office has today, 11 August 2021, formally responded to the Court of Appeal regarding 12 applications by former postmasters for permission to appeal their convictions in Post Office prosecutions between 2002 and 2013.
Post Office is supporting the applications in four cases and opposing six. In the two remaining cases an extension of time is being sought to obtain further information
Post Office saw the highest ever amount of cash withdrawn from its 11,500 branches outside of the traditionally busy December period, according to the latest date from its Cash Tracker.
Leicester Postmaster Hemandra Hindocha has celebrated 40 years’ service with the Post Office.
Prices fall in over half the European resorts surveyed by Post Office Travel Money – with biggest falls in Marmaris, Turkey; Sunny Beach, Bulgaria and Paphos, Cyprus Algarve is cheapest of 11 Eurozone destinations but report reveals big cost variations Research reveals chronic overspending by 75% of families – with meals, drinks and kids’ beach extras helping to bust the budget by an average o
Post Office today welcomed the Government’s announcement of funding support to be able to expedite interim payments of up to £100,000 for individuals whose convictions have been overturned where Horizon evidence was essential to the prosecution.
The payments will be offered whilst final compensation arrangements are established.
Post Office Chief Executive, Nick Read, said:
“Ensuring
The Court of Appeal today (19 July) formally overturned twelve convictions in cases prosecuted by Post Office between 2002 and 2012. The Post Office supported the appeals.
Fifteen other appeals, opposed by Post Office, have been referred to a single judge to decide whether the Court will grant permission to appeal.
A Post Office spokesperson said:
“Post Office is sincerely sorry for pa
