Post office growth bond

35har1old

If anybody is thinking of applying just add freepost to the addresd

eskbanker

Seems unlikely that they'll be attracting many new customers in the current climate, but a small gesture to cost them some money might appeal!

Pompeydave1967

eskbanker said:

Seems unlikely that they'll be attracting many new customers in the current climate, but a small gesture to cost them some money might appeal!

Agree how can they expect to attract new customers at this present moment , I reckon the opposite . Customers will leave when they can.
Absolute disgrace what they have done.

Stubod

Would not touch any Post Office accounts with a barge pole, (nothing to do with the current scandal, although I guess that helps), just that their savings accounts are outsourced (Bank of Ireland??), who are largely incompetent and have zero customer care skills and you may find ytou can't access your account at some point....once bitten...

friolento

The PO savings accounts I had in the past proved a bit of a disaster. Terrible website, terrible procedures, terrible / non-existent CS. Nobody could pay me enough to ever open a savings account with them again. Plenty of fish in the pond, PO isn't needed here.

ShinyStarlight1

I won’t be putting my money anywhere near the Post Office after how it treated its sub-postmasters.

35har1old

ShinyStarlight1 said:

I won’t be putting my money anywhere near the Post Office after how it treated its sub-postmasters.

So are you going to stop opening accounts with other institutions that require you to post applications and are going all online for statements.
If you use Amazon are you going to refuse delivery of your parcel if delivered by the post office

Barkin

The Post Office don't deliver parcels. 

Section62

35har1old said:

ShinyStarlight1 said:

I won’t be putting my money anywhere near the Post Office after how it treated its sub-postmasters.

So are you going to stop opening accounts with other institutions that require you to post applications and are going all online for statements.
If you use Amazon are you going to refuse delivery of your parcel if delivered by the post office

Royal Mail and the Post Office are two entirely separate companies. So no, I won't stop using postal accounts.

But based on past experience with PO savings they would need to come up with something very special to tempt me into risking the hassle that dealing with their savings account services usually involves.

Section62

Stubod said:

Would not touch any Post Office accounts with a barge pole, (nothing to do with the current scandal, although I guess that helps), just that their savings accounts are outsourced (Bank of Ireland??), who are largely incompetent and have zero customer care skills and you may find ytou can't access your account at some point....once bitten...

Completely agree.  One of my online savers was apparently still trying to take a direct debit from my current account a year after they stopped the direct debit option.  I gave up trying to get them to put a stop to it.

I thought their customer service was what Pompeydave1967 was referring to when they said "Absolute disgrace what they have done".  Then it clicked.

35har1old

Barkin said:

The Post Office don't deliver parcels. 

Thet do deliver items sent by Amazon and if it is not possible to deliver due to size you have to go to the post office to pick it up.
Royal Mail may have serperated but there is still some association as they use post office buildings and car parks