The government plans big changes for the Post Office network Plans to modernise the Post Office are to be unveiled later by the government.
The proposals are likely to introduce the idea of Post Offices being banking centres for their community, providing access to bank accounts even if they are held elsewhere.
They could also offer more government services, such as linking with Job Centre Plus.
The government is also likely to pledge to increase Post Office opening times and reduce queues.
Last month, the government announced that the Post Office was to receive £1.3bn of extra funding over the next four years to reform the network.
“The vision is that the Post Office will become a refreshed, central point of our community life again where it will have more services,” Postal Affairs Minister Ed Davey told the BBC ahead of the announcement.
“We hope to announce later today that a major new High Street bank is going to sign a contact with Post Office Ltd.
“What we want to do is to ensure that 100% of bank current accounts can be accessed over the Post Office network.
“At the moment you can actually do that for 60% of bank current accounts – when we’ve made this announcement later today we’ll be up to nearly 80%.”
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.