Post Office® Offers the Easy Way to Shop this Christmas
Monday, 21 November 2005
Post Office®, is branching out this Christmas to offer a whole range of cards and gift ideas - not only across its 14,600 strong branch network but also through a new on-line shop launched this week at www.postoffice.co.uk.
The move into the Christmas shopping market is part of an ongoing transformation of the Post Office’s retail offer. The new on-line shop offers hundreds of gift ideas with new items and promotions being added in the run up to Christmas.
In addition, customers visiting any of the Post Office®’s 540 branches in high streets and shopping centres across the UK will be able to pick up a range of price-leading presents – from hi-tech satellite navigation systems and digital cameras to flat screen TVs and i-Pods, alongside stocking fillers such as CDs, colouring books and painting sets.
To take the stress out of Christmas shopping for the two thirds of people across the UK who do not have easy access to a nearby high street or shopping centre, the Post Office’s 14,600 branches will stock a range of Gift Vouchers to meet their shopping needs. Gift Vouchers are available for a range of high street names including Top Shop, Debenhams and Woolworths together with a vouchers for a selection of experience and activity vouchers such as paintballing, parachuting and beauty spa treatments.
Post Office® Sales and Marketing Director, Gordon Steele, said:
“Our customers trust us to provide them with great value and that’s what we intend to do this Christmas. No matter where they live in the UK, by either going to their local Post Office® branch or visiting www.postoffice.co.uk they’ll be able to find a wide range of card and gift ideas to meet all their Christmas shopping needs”
Post Office® has set its sights on becoming a key player in the UK retail market. Post Office® branches on high streets across the country are currently being transformed to provide a more contemporary shopping environment.