Post Office Limited
British retail post office company owned by the government of the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and Identity Services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches. Most of these branch post offices (c. 99%) are run by franchise partners or by independent business people known as subpostmasters; Post Office Limited directly manages the remaining 1%, known as Crown post offices.[4]
Native name | Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. Scottish Gaelic: Oifis a' Phuist Cornish: Sodhva an Post Irish: Oifig an Phoist |
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Formerly | Post Office Counters Ltd (1987–2001)[1] |
Company type | State-owned private company limited by shares |
Industry | Postal service |
Predecessor | General Post Office |
Founded | 13 August 1987[1] |
Headquarters | , England |
Area served | United Kingdom |
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Revenue | £957 million (2021) |
£35 million (2021) | |
Owner | Government of the United Kingdom |
Number of employees | 5,020[3] |
Website | postoffice |
As of January 2024[update], an inquiry into the errors in the Horizon IT system which led to between 700 and 900 postmasters being wrongfully prosecuted for financial crimes,[5] in what has been described by the Criminal Cases Review Commission as "the biggest single series of wrongful convictions in British legal history."[6][7][8]