Post Office Card Accounts
As if this latest round of threatened Post Office closures wasn’t enough, the Post Office Card Account (POCA) is also under threat! The Government is soon to determine what is to succeed POCA. There are around four million people who use, and who wish to continue to use, this convenient and simple means of accessing their benefits at their local Post Office each week. We believe most strongly that people should be allowed to keep this choice.
The card account contract is worth around £1 billion over seven yeard. Without the successor account, POCA2, it is estimated that up to an additional three thousand post offices could be forced to close as a result! It is therefore absolutely imperative that this government does not strike yet another blow at our Post Offices, the services that they offer and the local communities that depend on them.
The Government should ensure that POCA2 remains a Post Office product.
You can get a form to send to your Member of Parliament from the Robin Hood Post Office. Alternatively you can print out or download the points to make from our Post Office Campaign Information page on this site or simply write to your MP urging him/her to sign Early Day Motion 1506 and, if they have not been doing so already, in future support post offices at every opportunity in the House of Commons.
