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<p>There are over 11,600 post office branches in the UK, the largest retail network
in the country.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2010 and 2018, Government will have invested
nearly £2 billion to modernise and sustain the Post Office. This has led to the most
stable network for decades, but importantly our transformation of the network has
delivered an extra 200,000 opening hours a week across the country and more than 4,100
branches are open on Sundays.</p><p> </p><p>On 8 November the Government launched
a public consultation on the network to understand what customers and small businesses
expect from branches, and this will inform the government’s next state aid application
for funding the Post Office.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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