Post Office ‘committed to branches’

THE Post Office is committed to sustaining its 11,600-strong branch network, saying its modernisation plans have added 200,000 extra opening hours in recent years.

Thousands of branches have been “transformed”, with 4,000 open seven days a week, leading to shorter queues as people use Post Offices outside office hours, said the organisation.

Tom Moran, general manager of the Post Office network, said: “The extra opening hours we’ve added over the last four years add up to the equivalent of 5,000 new branches.”

The Communication Workers Union said recently that its members in Post Offices had voted in favour of strikes in a dispute over job losses, pensions and the franchising of Crown offices.