
Parcels and pani puri: inside the UK's post office takeaways
Post offices were once vital community hubs, depended on by the nation as places to buy stamps, send parcels and pay bills. Nowadays, paperless billing and payment services have streamlined our financial transactions, while email and messaging apps have drastically reduced the need to communicate by post.
According to postal services regulator Ofcom, 6.6bn UK-addressed letters were posted in 2023-2024, a 67% decline in 20 years from a peak of 20bn annually. There were more than 18,000 post offi...
According to postal services regulator Ofcom, 6.6bn UK-addressed letters were posted in 2023-2024, a 67% decline in 20 years from a peak of 20bn annually. There were more than 18,000 post offi...