Post Office Limited
Native name | Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. |
|---|---|
| Formerly | Post Office Counters Ltd (1987–2001) |
| Company type | State-owned private company limited by shares |
| Industry | Postal service |
| Predecessor | General Post Office |
| Founded | 13 August 1987 |
| Headquarters | London , England |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people | Nigel Railton (chair), Neil Brocklehurst (CEO) |
| Revenue | £912 million (2024) |
| £22 million (2024) | |
| Owner | Government of the United Kingdom |
Number of employees | 3,719 (2024) |
| Website | postoffice |
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 through its nationwide network of around 11,500 branches. Most of these branch post offices (c. 99%) are run by franchise partners or by independent business people known as subpostmasters; Post Office Limited directly manages the remaining 1%, known as Crown post offices.
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".