Post office to become Internet shopping centre
News Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers is expected to announce plans to turn post offices into Internet centres as he delivers the findings of a Cabinet Office report to Parliament this afternoon.
[June 28, 2000, 12:49]
Post Office tackles UK telcos
News The Post Office hopes to attract many BT customers to a low-cost residential telephone service that it launched on Monday, which could be the forerunner to a broadband service. Gordon Steele, the executive director at the Post Office, said it has...
[January 10, 2005, 16:15]
Post-it Notes trademark threatens Office release
News M last year released a version of its Post-it Notes as pop-up software. Microsoft plans a sticky memo feature in the imminent Office 97 that 3M says infringes on its famous trademark and is asking for the feature to be removed in the shipping...
[January 10, 1997, 11:55]
Post Office blamed for BT flight problems
News The spokesman wouldn't confirm BT's estimate that hundreds of people have been affected, saying "I don't have the figures to hand," but added that "severe Post Office problems" had hampered the processing of application forms.
[September 9, 2004, 17:00]
Freebeeb.net delivers through Post Office
News Freebeeb.net, the controversial free ISP from the BBC, is teaming up with the Post Office to get the message out. Post Office customers will now be able to pick up a Freebeeb.net CD when they pop in for stamps.
[September 7, 1999, 11:18]
Tenon Post.Office
Downloads Post.Office is a scalable SMTP/POP3/IMAP messaging server designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized ISPs. Post.Office can support 10 users or ten thousand users on a single platform with appropriately configured hardware.
[July 23, 2008, 8:00]
DTI announces cyber post office scheme
News Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers announced Thursday plans to train post office staff as government general practitioners so that they can teach and advise the public on how to access government services through the Internet.
[December 2, 2000, 6:15]
Post Office tackles UK telcos
Talkback Agreed, Skype will eventually have to charge for services. The PO has a great channel to market and I know people who have signed up already - granted the service is new, but C&W are the number 2 telco in the UK.
[January 12, 2005, 13:45]
Post Office tackles UK telcos
Talkback Why would they want to team up with Skype? The PO needs a traditional voice product to woo BT customers away, Skype will woo customers who have already chaged and gone with the likes of Talk Talk and Caudwell and who bed hop at the drop of a hat.
[January 12, 2005, 13:39]
Post Office blamed for BT flight problems
Talkback All seems very like how Hoover flight fiasco started. Hoover also had trouble with the Postal service. Fly by night", are they joking.
[September 11, 2004, 5:31]
Post Office blamed for BT flight problems
Talkback I have receieved many more than " ONE " complaint on the offers run by Rise Travel & MKM Promotions. I throw the gauntlett down to both these company's let Harry Cichy & a team from BBC Watchdog into your offices.
[September 24, 2004, 19:08]
Post Office tackles UK telcos
Talkback idiots, they should have teamed up, skype will ruin them both
[January 10, 2005, 22:07]
Post Office tackles UK telcos
Talkback Agreed. Skype will take down all telcos.
[January 11, 2005, 9:33]
UK Post Office orders 19,500 touch-screen kiosks
News The first pilot is underway in Gloucestershire and the Post Office said it expects full installation to be complete within two or three years. Touch-screen expert MicroTouch has won the £13 million contract with ICL Pathway to provide touch-screens...
[December 12, 1996, 11:45]
E-envoy quits to return to Australia
News E-envoy Alex Allan quits his Cabinet Office post Tuesday for "personal reasons". I am sorry to be standing down from the post. The government is keen to fill the post as soon as possible and will be advertising for a successor in the next few weeks.
[September 5, 2000, 15:40]
Pensioners without cash after system failure
News The government is in talks with the Post Office to discover the cause of a computer crash which prevented thousands of pensioners collecting benefits payments. It is not yet known what caused the crash but the government, the Post Office and its...
[August 25, 2004, 16:45]
How to spot the common symptoms of ineffective IT
Blog Outside the world of IT, my ongoing project is the renovation of a former Post Office in rural Devon. I dread to think how many symptoms of dissatisfaction my Post Office project will show me, but experience both with my IT projects and with my...
[February 4, 2009, 14:36]
Linux is mission critical for Czechs
Talkback 1 server = 1 post office client = 1 lady on the post office :-)
[February 1, 2005, 20:30]
Deutsche Post - With Touchpaper, the post gets delivered!
White Papers The German Post Office Customer Service Centre is a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Post Office and functions within the organisation as a service and business process outsourcing partner. At the german Post Office Customer Service Centre in...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Post offices to collect foreign nationals' biometrics
News The Home Office agency said it will charge an £8 fee to have their fingerprints and photograph taken at one of 17 crown post offices, while this will remain free at UK Border Agency or Identity and Passport Service Offices.
[September 25, 2009, 9:47]



