British retail post office company owned by the government of the United Kingdom
Post Office Limited
Native name
Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. Scottish Gaelic: Oifis a' Phuist Cornish: Sodhva an Post Irish: Oifig an Phoist
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
London
,
England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Nick Read (CEO) [2]
Revenue
£957 million (2021)
Net income
£35 million (2021)
Owner
Government of the United Kingdom
Number of employees
5,020[3]
Website
postoffice.co.uk
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 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).[4]
As of January 2024[update], 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,[5] in what has been described as one of biggest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.[6][7]
^ ab"POST OFFICE LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. 13 August 1987. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^Patel, Rina (18 July 2019). "New Group Chief Executive appointed". One Post Office. Post Office Limited.
^"Post Office Limited Annual Report & Financial Statements 2017/18" (PDF). The Post Office. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
^Booth, Lorna. "Post Office Numbers" (PDF). UK Parliament. House of Commons Library. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
^"Public Hearings Timeline". Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
^"Post Office scandal explained: What the Horizon saga is all about". 21 April 2021 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
^Johnston, Neil; Somerville, Ewan; Pinkstone, Joe (8 January 2024). "The Post Office bosses who presided over biggest miscarriage of justice in legal history". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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