after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Liam Byrne, chair of the parliamentary business select committee, said mutualisation was an option with lots of potential.<\/p>\n

Most post offices generate their revenues by providing a variety of government services, which have tightly controlled profit margins.<\/p>\n

Its more than 11,600 sub-post offices are privately run as franchise operations of the Post Office.<\/p>\n

A review of the Post Office by the consulting firm Teneo is expected to recommend shrinking directly employed staff from 3,500 to 1,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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