Post Office issues full list of 115 branches at risk of closure with 2,000 jobs affected

The Post Office plans to close more than 100 branches and says about 2,000 jobs are at risk. The Post Office confirmed on Wednesday it was seeking to offload 115 branches, known as crown post offices, it centrally owns, but said it expected to maintain the total network at 11,500 branches across the UK.

The Post Office is also “streamlining” its central operations, with speculation that this will lead to about 1,000 further job cuts. Nigel Railton, the chair of the Post Office, said: “The Post Office has a 360-year history of public service and today we want to secure that service for the future by learning from past mistakes and moving forward for the benefit of all postmasters. We can, and will, restore pride in working for a business with a legacy of service, rather than one of scandal.”

However, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) condemned the closure plans. Its general secretary, Dave Ward, said: “For the company to announce the closure of hundreds of post offices hot on the heels of the Horizon scandal is as tone deaf as it is immoral.

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“CWU members are victims of the Horizon scandal and for them to now fear for their jobs ahead of Christmas is yet another cruel attack.” Ward called the planned cuts a “shambolic decision” and said Labour should act to ensure it did “not become the government that targeted elderly people with the removal of the winter fuel allowance and then saw crucial services they rely on removed”.

The branches at risk

• Aldwych

• Antrim

• Baker Street

• Bangor

• Barnes Green

• Barnet

• Belfast City

• Bexhill-on-Sea

• Bideford

• Birmingham

• Bransholme, Hull

• Breck Road, Liverpool

• Bridlington

• Brixton, London

• Broadway

• Caernarfon

• Cambridge City

• Canning Town

• Chester-le-Street

• City of London

• Clapham Common

• Cosham

• Cricklewood

• Crossgates

• Croydon High Street

• Dereham

• Didsbury Village

• Dunraven Place

• East Dulwich, London

• Eccles

• Eccleston Street

• Edinburgh City

• Furness House

• Glasgow

• Gloucester

• Golders Green

• Great Portland Street

• Grimsby

• Haddington

• Hampstead

• Harlesden

• Harold Hill

• High Holborn

• Houndsditch

• Hyde

• Inverness

• Islington

• Kendal

• Kennington Park

• Kensington

• Kettering

• Kilburn

• Kingsbury

• Kingsland High Street

• Kirkwall

• Knightsbridge

• Leigh

• Leighton Buzzard

• Liskeard

• London Bridge

• Derry

• Lower Edmonton

• Lupus Street

• Manchester

• Matlock

• Melville Road

• Merthyr Tydfil

• Milton Keynes

• Morecambe

• Morley

• Mount Pleasant

• Mutley

• Nailsea

• Newquay

• Newtownards

• Northolt

• Old Swan

• Oswestry

• Oxford

• Paddington Quay

• Paignton

• Port Talbot

• Portsmouth

• Poulton-le-Fylde

• Prestwich

• Raynes Park

• Redditch

• Roman Road

• Romsey

• Rotherham

• Salford City

• Saltcoats

• Sheffield City

• South Ockendon

• South Shields

• Southall

• Springburn Way

• St Johns

• St Peters Street

• Stamford

• Stamford Hill

• Stockport

• Stornoway

• Stroud

• Sunderland City

• Teignmouth

• The Markets

• Vauxhall Bridge road

• Wealdstone

• Westbourne

• Wester Hailes

• Windsor

• Worlds End

• Yate Sodbury