Archive of all Post Office articles – Page 21
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Will you take the Habit?
In the popular tourist village of Gosforth in Cumbria, the Lakeland Habit is an extremely profitable c-store, post office and newsagency. Located opposite the village's only major car park it also incorporates a first floor tearoom/cafe which is...
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Preservation order had to be overcome to give the Hook Norto
Tony Hurren reports A village store at Hook Norton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, where a series of proprietors stayed for only two or three years, has now been run by the same couple for more than a decade and, following a major refit, sales have...
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No room for a Soviet state
The Competition Comm-ission kept the Post Office busy again this week with another mail out to supermarkets. Just a whiff of the official postmark sets the adrenalin coursing through the veins of the industry and its media sideshow. But for all...
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Billingshurst sale
The Station Road Post Office in Lower Station Road in Billingshurst, West Sussex, is on the market. The business, which carries a Post Office salary of £16,000 a year and a gross margin of 35%, is loated close to the railway station. There is great...
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n It doesn't have to be a doom and gloom story about closure
What future for the village shop? Together with the church, school and pub, the local shop and post office has always been a key focal point to village life. Over the past 20 years, many villages have lost their local shop and discovered, too late,...