Post Office Limited
British retail post office company owned by the government of the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Post Office Ltd?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
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]
Native name | Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. Scottish Gaelic: Oifis a' Phuist 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 | , 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[3] |
Website | postoffice |
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 the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.[6][7]