The very loved village post office pays hardly to work

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There are about 3,000 people, cottages, two pubs, a church and small post office in the 12th century in Srivenham village in Oxfordshire. Jackie Alaway stopped the last week, the couple, who talked to Sarah and Matthew Thorne, talked to her couple.

“If I need a card, they will say what the congratulations are and are friends and helper,” said Adaway, which is weak and 10 minutes. “This is a social place. If I’m in the house and feel lonely, I have come here and have a conversation.” Both postal services and greeting cards, it uses it to extract the branch and money.

Shrivenham is an alarming village, which develops golf clubs, horse-owned stalls, horse-owned stalls and Britain’s Defense Academy, all over the world. However, the Lloyds bank branch was closed a few years ago and the post office is a vital commercial center for many residents.

The rich page of another peasant manages a Pokémon card trading work from home and uses the branch to send cards with registered writing. There are shipping and drop-down services in the local co-op comfort store, but prefer the post office. “Some cards are extremely valuable and I know they are safe when I come here and Sarah and Matthew.”

Since 2009, the Srivenham post office of thorns has been a great community value. Whether it’s a good job is another issue. As the post office tries to work Horizon calculation scandal Shows Shrivenham problem, to make 11,500 branches more affordable for sub-postmasters working under the franchise.

For operations such as Thornes, parcels and sales, the post office received £ 104,500 from the post office. After renting, the salary for four part-time staff and other expenses, they managed to take £ 37,000 for the year. In addition, they won 22,200 pounds by selling gifts such as river towels and toys such as river towels and toys.

To operate a post office, £ 37,000 puts Thones in the top of the sub postmaster, but this is less than an annual legal minimum wage. “They are doing the most better, because 52 percent of postmasters do not make any money,” says Elliot Jacobs, post office, stationery, stationery and post offices chain.

The Gulf between the economic value of the post offices and the economic value of the community expanded as a traditional contact with the privatized king post in 2011 Pounded £ 5.3bn Last year, Czech billionaire Daniel křetínský stretched. Post offices have competition for less letters and parcel delivery: Amazon has a logistics center near Shrivenham.

For example, for each special delivery connection, earn an average of £ 1.50 for each special delivery connection and earn an average of 1.50 pounds for each special delivery connection to pay the mail and leaves there. If the customer purchases the post-Royal mail online, the label prints and falls to the post office, they receive 25 pens.

“It takes a long time to serve some customers because they want to chat. They are your favorite people and I won another way,” I won 25p “, including a property lawyer, including a property lawyer, including a property lawyer, Sarah Thorne. Thornes hoping to approach the nearest former bank building to offer larger and banking services.

Last year’s post office, 416 mln. The government has the government and the future will soon give a green paper in the future: the post office wants a longer term to give more management autonomy.

However, the tension between personal service and financial logic remains. The next wave partners have nine branches in London and around the Jacobs’ Uoe chain, supported by a special capital firm. He wants to get more post offices. “This is a great job in his nucleus, but you need to work hard and need the economies of a scale,” he says.

In their affiliates, there is a need to increase premiums to come soon. “We have not received a holiday in three years, we could partly give” Sarah Thorne. The government, post office and the villagers of Shrivenham are considering their work are valuable. It is tougher to make payment.

john.gapper@ft.com