Post Office Limited
Post Office Limited is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking 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; the remaining 1% are directly managed by Post Office Limited (these are known as Crown post offices).
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) |
| Company type | State-owned private company limited by shares |
| Industry | Postal service |
| Predecessor | General Post Office |
| Founded | 13 August 1987 |
| Headquarters | , England |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people | |
| Revenue | £957 million (2021) |
| £35 million (2021) | |
| Owner | Government of the United Kingdom |
Number of employees | 5,020 |
| Website | postoffice |
As of January 2024, the Post Office is the subject of an inquiry into the errors in its Horizon IT system which led to several hundred postmasters being wrongfully prosecuted for theft, in what has been described as one of biggest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.
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