Post Office

Cash makes up less than 25% of on-trade payments

11-Aug-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Cash payments account for less than 25% of transactions in the majority of pubs despite a recent boom in consumer use of physical money.

Vote now: how much of your trade comes from cash?

08-Aug-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Consumer use of cash has increased in a bid to manage household and holiday budgets, Post Office research has revealed.

Property

Is it a pub or a post office? The rise of the multi-purpose community hub

27-Jan-2016 By Ben Winstanley

With the number of village shops and post offices dwindling across the country, communities are in danger of losing their local amenities. Is it time that pubs took over the mantle? Ben Winstanley talks to forerunning licensees about their multi-purpose...

Community hub

From pints to post: pub combines with shop and Post Office

28-Sep-2015 By Oli Gross

A North Yorkshire pub hopes customers will sway from "pint to post" after converting an old pool room into a Post Office to create a community hub.

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Norfolk's first community-owned pub to open a shop

16-Apr-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Norfolk’s first community-owned pub has opened a shop thanks to support from rural pub champions Pub is the Hub and Norfolk County Council. The White Horse at Upton will sell newspapers, local produce and other everyday essentials.

Pub is the Hub helps Blue Bell Inn, Halkyn diversify with post office counter

17-Feb-2014 By Helen Gilbert

A North Wales pub is serving stamps alongside its cider and giving punters the chance to collect their pensions while popping in for a pint.

Pub becomes a part-time Post Office

02-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

A pub will be sending parcels as well as serving pints after beocming a part-time Post Office. The Three Horseshoes at Brimpton, near Reading, is...

Chris Maclean: A financial dilemma

11-Feb-2008 By Chris Maclean

I bank with the Post Office. My bookkeeper tells me it is the cheapest option, they are open at more convenient hours and they are good for supplying...

Chris Maclean: counter intelligence

06-Aug-2007 By Chris Maclean

I have a bank account at the Post Office. It is one of those stupid things that evolved as we moved into the new millennium. The Post Office, no...

Pubs to house 500 post offices by 2009

24-May-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk

Pubs are set to house up to 500 post offices after the Government confirmed it would axe 2,500 by 2009. The Government has earmarked pubs as an ideal...

Pub post office plan

23-May-2007 By Eleanor Goodman

Rural pubs could be set to reap the rewards of a new government scheme, which could see the Post Office setting up 500 new outlets in remote...

Stamp of approval

15-Feb-2007

Hilary Scott tells Ewan Turney how adding a post office to the refurbished Black Swan in Wistow, North Yorkshire, helped her win friends and double...

How to set up a Post Office in your pub

03-Mar-2005

With the high amounts of cash and administration involved, setting up a post office is not as straightforward as just any old shop. First of all,...

EC clampdown proposes RTD ban

30-Sep-2004

A ban on RTDs, tighter controls on drinks marketing and warnings on drinks labels are among the suggestions put forward in a confidential document...

Pub Hub body fights for cash

30-Oct-2003

by Tony Halstead The Pub is the Hub campaign has set itself a £200,000 target to establish itself as a national body, fighting to save hundreds of...

Royal invitation for a Pubmaster pub

27-May-2003

A Pubmaster tenant has been practising her curtsey recently after accepting a Royal invitation. Jeanette Feneron, Landlady of The Crown Inn,...

A unique rural business, which trades from a pretty thatched

15-May-2003

The Pint & Post Tea-Room and Bar, four miles north of the Cornish town of Launceston, combines a post office and store, pub and tearoom all...