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The Post Office welcomes WHSmith as proposed retail partner for 16 crown branches and announces next step in £70M high street branches investment programme

The Post Office welcomes WHSmith as proposed retail partner for 16 crown branches and announces next step in £70M high street branches investment programme



- £70m investment being made in 300 Crown branches in town and city centres
- Over 40 Crown branches to be modernised by Christmas 2013
- Nine branches already modernised.
- WHSmith confirmed as proposed partner for 16 branches


The Post Office has today announced the next steps of its transformation plans and its proposals to modernise 300 Crown Post Office branches

Post Office's free fast-track Drop and Go service now available at over 11,000 branches - two week discount available to users of pre-paid postage service

Post Office's free fast-track Drop and Go service now available at over 11,000 branches - two week discount available to users of pre-paid postage service

- 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
- Discount of 20 per cent when sending selected small and medium inland parcels from 2-15 September*
The Post Office’s new Drop & Go pre-paid postage service is now available at over 11,000 branches acro

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The Post Office has over 11,500 branches across the UK, 97% of these are run with retail partners on an agency or franchise basis. 99.7% of the population live within 3 miles of a Post Office and 93% live within 1 mile. Along with a significant online business, we are the biggest retail network in the UK, with more branches than all the banks and building societies combined.

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