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  • Post Office becomes the first major high street Travel Insurance provider to offer flight delay assistance

    Post Office has become the first major high street Travel Insurance provider to offer flight delay assistance cover as part of its Travel Insurance offering.
    The service will provide customers who experience flight delays of two or more hours with access to 650 lounges in over 300 airports*, allowing them to use their amenities and services while they wait for their flight. The service is free

  • MAJORITY OF POST OFFICE BRANCHES UNAFFECTED BY STRIKE ACTION ON 31st OCTOBER


     Business as usual for 50,000 people working in over 11,000 branches Post Office disappointed by strike action and committed to ongoing talks
     Changes needed to safeguarded Post Office services for the future Majority of Directly Managed branches open for business

    The Post Office has said that 99 per cent of its network of 11,600 branches are open for business and unaffected by

  • MAJORITY OF POST OFFICE BRANCHES UNAFFECTED BY UNION’S CALL FOR STRIKE ACTION ON 31st OCTOBER

    Business as usual for 50,000 people working in over 11,000 branches Post Office disappointed by strike action and committed to ongoing talks In September’s strike nearly 99% of the network open for customers Changes needed to safeguarded Post Office services for the future Contingency plans will minimise disruption of industrial action
    The Post Office has said the vast majority of its netwo

  • Rate of Sale: The average UK property takes 91 days to sell

    Properties in Bristol and Edinburgh sell fastest – an average of 51 and 53 days, respectively Homes in Swansea and Liverpool have the longest wait to be sold, with the typical property taking over 100 days to sell in both of the cities House price hotspots Brighton and London, have seen the sharpest increase in the typical time that properties spend on the market - taking more than 20 per cent l

  • UK holidaymakers’ appetite for overseas travel remains buoyant despite sterling fall

    UK holidaymakers’ appetite for overseas travel remains buoyant despite sterling fall

    Fast on the heels of reports that sterling has slumped to a 31-year low against the US dollar comes news that purchases of foreign currency by UK holidaymakers are increasing rather than decreasing – suggesting a sustained appetite for overseas travel.In its latest Holiday Money Index, which surveys movemen

  • MAJORITY OF POST OFFICE BRANCHES WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY FURTHER INDUSTRIAL ACTION


    Vast majority of Post Office branches are not involved in dispute Post Office disappointed by CWU call for strike In September’s strike over 98% of the network remained open Changes mean Post Office services are safeguarded for the future
    The Post Office has reassured its customers that the vast majority of its network of 11,600 branches will remain unaffected by industrial action c

  • Families can save £000s on half term holidays by swapping destinations

     Saturday 15 October 2016
    European half term breaks could cost families £1,570 but that could more than double to almost £3,600 depending on resort choice Savings of over £4,000 to be made on family long haul trips Costa del Sol is the best bet for a budget half term holiday Swap the Canaries for Thailand as prices in Phuket beat those in Lanzarote
    Families hoping to swap the UK

  • Post Office response to CWU and Unite comments on further industrial action

    Mark Davies, Communications and Corporate Affairs Director at Post Office, said:
    “We are disappointed that our unions are again talking about strikes when we continue to try to reach a constructive way forward through talks at Acas. We can reassure our customers that, if strikes go ahead, the vast majority of people working at Post Office branches would not be involved and almost all of our net

  • Skiers urged to head east where the pistes cost least



    Bansko, Bulgaria is best value of 20 European ski resorts for the seventh year running Local price freeze makes Italian resorts cheapest in Europe’s ‘Big Four’ski countries Canada’s Banff trounces its competitors in the USA for transatlantic ski value

    Cash-conscious skiers can avoid the slippery slope of higher prices for their annual downhill trip by heading to ski resorts in

  • Pa-rentals: Number of parent landlords on the rise

     
    Number of ‘parent landlords’ in the UK likely to increase in the coming years, with 1.4 million current and prospective owners of properties rented by their children One in 10 of those living in their parents’ property are allowed to live there free of charge, with only five per cent charged the rental market rate Parents are unable to let go of their offspring, with a quarter wanting

  • PC PARENTS: Two thirds of parents admit they turn to the internet for help with kids homework



    Parents spend more than two hours a week helping with homework online Families across the UK now spend 38 per cent more time surfing the home internet than five years ago Sites like Urban Dictionary help over a quarter of baffled parents understand their children
    A new study by Post Office Broadband reveals the true extent to which modern day parents rely on the internet. From h

  • The cost of a burglary: Victims faced with £2,833 bill from damaged and stolen items

    The average cost of damage caused during a break-in is £566… …coupled with an additional £2,267 from the value of stolen items The percentage of burglaries where computers are stolen has risen dramatically over the last decade (17 per cent to 34 per cent)

    A burglary will cost the average household £2,833, according to Post Office Home Insurance.
    The research, taken from the Off

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