Post offices (within other shops) risk review

摘要

THE RETAIL sector has been visited rarely in this series, but during our summer break we might be visiting country villages which by definition include a pub, church and post office. There are currently about 11,500 post offices in the UK, some 300 of which are classified as 'main' post offices, with the remainder being run by sub postmasters in their own shops or being hosted by other premises, mainly convenience stores. In towns some of the main post offices are now to be found in multiple stores such as WH Smith. Sadly, it is estimated that up to 5,000 post offices have closed since the turn of the century. Local post offices that have survived are often a cornerstone of the community, and have become havens of minimal technology, with computers having been introduced only relatively recently. In the past ten years, there have been just seven major fires in the classification 'post offices in other shops'.