Topics: Leisure

  • Post Office Disappointed At CWU's Decision to Walk Away From Talks On A Fair And Affordable Pay Deal For People Working In Its Supply Chain Network

    - Post Office undertaking biggest transformation in UK retail history to become commercially viable and reduce reliance on public money - Post Office offering consolidated pay increases with additional lump sum payments - Any ballot will not include employees working in the Post Office’s over 11, 500 branches across the UK - Post Office offer of meeting with ACAS remains on the table

  • 3-in-1 Holiday Money Mobile App Launched

    - Tourists can get travel cash ‘on the go’ and calculate holiday prices with new Mobile App - Prices for Holiday Costs Barometer tourist staples available for 20 top destinations

  • Parents Set To Spend Over £200 Entertaining The Kids This Half Term

    - Parents expect to spend £2291 on keeping their children amused over half term - Week of woe: Nearly two thirds of parents (62 per cent) are worried about covering the costs - A third (31 per cent) will dip into their savings and 22 per cent plan to work overtime to make up the shortfall

  • Post Office Trials New Home Shopping Returns Drop Off Points At Over 150 New Locations

    - New Drop Off points used to return home shopping via Royal Mail Pre-Paid Returns service - This is in addition to the 11,500 branches already operating this service offering new customers access to the growing need for the service - Almost three quarters (71 per cent¹) of online shoppers say Post Office branches are their preferred returns point

  • Polarised Picture For Long Haul Tourists As Prices Plummet In Some Destinations But Rise In Others

    - Bali and Cape Town remain best value of 34 destinations surveyed for the Post Office Long Haul Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/longhaul2014) - See-sawing local prices mean big gains for tourists visiting Tamarindo, Costa Rica; Tokyo and Mauritius but sharp resort rises in Dubai, Antigua and Hoi An, Vietnam - Local prices rise in 63 per cent of resorts but sterling cushions the impact

  • Post Office Launches Pre-Paid Funeral Plans

    - Pre-paid funeral plans provide customers aged over 50 with certainty over funeral costs - Plans allow customers to pay a minimum of £150 a month towards the cost of their funeral

  • Gap Year Gamblers: Travellers Forgo Protection

    - Forty seven per cent travelled without the vaccinations required - One in five (20 per cent) fell ill whilst abroad, with a further ten per cent suffering injury - One in seven (15 per cent) did not have travel insurance - Recent gap year claims include £100,000 Air Ambulance from USA

  • Soaring Summer Currency Sales Bring A Fine Winter Sun Forecast For Vietnam, USA and Caribbean

    - Strong World Cup appeal has made the Brazilian real Post Office® Travel Money’s Fastest Growing Currency for summer 2014 - Vietnam comes of age as holiday destination: summer currency sales have quadrupled within three years - Powerful pound drives demand for Eastern Europe: Hungarian forint registers Europe’s top summer growth while Croatian kuna is a Post Office bestseller

  • Culture Vultures Should Head East For The Lowest Priced High Brow Break

    - Almost half of UK holidaymakers call themselves culture vultures - Warsaw is Europe’s cheapest city for culture with prices under a third of those in Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris - Eurozone culture comes with lowest price tag in Dublin and Rome - London is the most expensive cultural capital despite price falls of over 20 per cent in the past five years

  • The UK - A Nation Of Well-Travelled Tots

    - Twice as many children under five (52 per cent) have travelled abroad compared to their parents (26 per cent) when they were that age - Over a quarter (26 per cent) of children had travelled abroad three times or more by the age of five – yet seven in ten (69 per cent) of their parents hadn’t even left the country by this age

  • Street Performers in Edinburgh Celebrate Sundays with the Post Office

    Dozens of street performers in London, Edinburgh and across the UK, took to the streets this weekend to help the Post Office celebrate its Sunday openings by performing the Commodores’ smash hit Easy (like Sunday Morning).
    42-year-old performer Jules Maxine from Edinburgh, who took part in the campaign, said: “What is not to love about Sundays, my husband and I used to run a hotel and Sunday w

  • Average UK Household Savings Fall

    - UK currently sits eleventh in league table of average potential savings below Spain and Italy - Amount UK households could be saving is down by more than 10 per cent since 2010 - Post Office predicts that by 2018 the UK will remain below the majority of advanced European economies in the savings league table

  • Close Knit Families: The UK's Space Starved Children Struggle For Room

    - Children forced to share a bedroom in a fifth of households - this is due to lack of space in one in ten UK homes - Adults have a smaller bedroom than children in a third of households - Aspiring movers can expect to wait four years before moving to a bigger house, but almost a third doubt they’ll ever be able to do so

  • Meal Deals Make A Big Difference To Wallet-Watching Families On European Summer Holidays

    - Powerful pound helps prices plunge in most top European family resorts - Sunny Beach, Bulgaria and Costa del Sol are again cheapest for families - Biggest falls of over 26 per cent come where restaurants have cut meal costs says new Family Holiday Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyholidays2014) - Resort spending rises 16.5 per cent and two-in-five bust the budget by £242

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