Post Office Limited

This article is about the retail post office company. For the postal service and courier company, see Royal Mail. For British postal services before 1970, see General Post Office. For 1970–2001, see Royal Mail § Statutory corporation. For other uses of the name and term Post Office, see Post Office (disambiguation).

Post Office Limited
FormerlyPost Office Counters Limited (1987–2001)
Company typeState-owned private company limited by shares
IndustryPostal service
PredecessorGeneral Post Office
Founded13 August 1987
Headquarters
London
,
England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Nigel Railton (Chair)
Neil Brocklehurst (CEO)
Revenue £871 million (2025)
£218 million (2025)
£92 million (2025)
OwnerGovernment of the United Kingdom
Number of employees
3,604 (2025)
Websitepostoffice.co.uk

Post Office Limited, formerly Post Office Counters Limited and commonly known as the Post Office, is a state-owned retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public. It does this through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches, which are run by franchise partners or by independent business people known as subpostmasters, under contracts with the Post Office.

Since 2020, a public enquiry has been under way into the company's actions which led to between 700 and 900 subpostmasters being wrongfully prosecuted for financial crimes, in what has been described by the Criminal Cases Review Commission as "the biggest single series of wrongful convictions in British legal history".

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