| In Britain the postal service is run by the Royal Mail, but don’t get excited this doesn’t mean you get a whistling Duke of York trotting up to your front door every morning. The company operates a monopoly but and has been recently been held to task about its performance. The feeling is that too many items get delivered late, or worse still, lost. However it is a pretty accessible service and you can pop a letter in one of their 100,000 post boxes, or visit a choice of 17,000 Post Offices. These vary from huge metropolitan sites, to tiny countryside ones, and are a great place to see what the British do best, queuing patiently. As well as selling stamps the Post Office provides a number of services including money transfers. |
| For further information on all the services listed in the following pages, you can visit the web site at the Royal Mail website. There are some excellent tool to help you: |
| Post Offices also deal in foreign currency and travellers cheques and make a good place to buy or sell them . They offer decent rates on foreign currency at over 600 Bureau De Change nationwide . |
| Available at 2,300 post offices this service takes only ten minutes to transfer money to 55,000 locations in 155 countries. No bank account or credit card is needed, making it a great choice in a emergency. |
| As well as being a good place to pay bills free of charge, you can also buy your driving and fishing licences, international phone cards, and most importantly lottery tickets here at your local Post Office. |
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