Take a trip to the Post Office

Advantages: Reliable cover at excellent rates
Disadvantages: None that I know of

...Are you about to head off on a well-deserved holiday? Are you looking for reliable, competitive Travel Insurance? Well, did you know that you could purchase cover through your local Post Office? The Post Office, in conjunction with Aon Risk Services Ltd, offers an excellent low-cost service. If you are going to be travelling alone, you can buy an Individual Cover policy: if you are a couple living together under the same roof and aged under 65 years, look for Couple Cover (which works out cheaper than two individual policies) or for a family comprising two adults under 65 years and up to three children under 18 years, there is Family Cover. For adults over the age of 65,trips of any length in the UK or trips of no more than 31 days in Europe are at the same rates as for under 65s,while trips to Europe of more than 31 days and trips...

Suzan 05.01.2001 (31.12.2000) · Read review
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Post Office Broadband, cheap but slightly shoddy

Advantages: Cheap, good customer service
Disadvantages: Unstable speeds (possible throttling), webspace doesn't work

...I have had the Post Office Broadband bundled with my home phone for about 6 months and while my experiences from a customer services aspect have been good and the bundled phone line and broadband offers a competetive price the product itself is unfortunately of unreliable quality. My conncetion regularly gets throttled down from my usual performance of about 5Mb/s to about 1-2Mb/s, a couple of times the speed has even gone down to about 500Kb/s. Of less concern, but still embarrasing, is the quality of the 50MB webspace provided, seems like any web element has only about a 50-70% chance of loading at any given time, so looking at a picture gallery page will have up to half the pictures missing with a different selection of pictures missing upon presssing refresh. If you want to have a look yourself check out some demo pages I put...

Vaerner 08.10.2009 · Read review
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A review/cautionary tale of Post Office Car Insurance!

Advantages: cheap car insurance, some polite and friendly staff
Disadvantages: stressful, costly, some lying staff, hassle, grief, don't touch with a barge pole

...My experience of Post Office Motor Insurance was sadly not a happy one. I took advantage of a cash back offer for taking out a comprehensive Motor Insurance policy, within a short time the documents arrived, but then I found a better offer. As I was still well within the 14 day okay-to-change-your-mind 'cooling-off' period, I cancelled the policy and took one out with the alternative provider. Somehow the Post Office, despite being very pleasant and understanding on the telephone, and having had the Certificate of Insurance documents returned to them as requested, somehow charged my debit card for the full amount anyway. I thought this must simply be an error, however I was concerned as my bank account was not exactly flush at the time, I had after all just paid the OTHER insurance provider for their policy, and lots of other bills...

razielle 19.03.2009 · Read review
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The most useful office tool: the Post-It

Advantages: Great for making notes
Disadvantages: Sometimes they come unstuck when you least want them to!

...Post-It notes are a common office staple. Even with the advance of technologies since the Post-It was invented in 1977, they are still used commonly and most of the time, in my job as a secretary, they are the most favoured way of writing on a report everything I've done wrong, or every tiny spelling mistake I've made! Of course, they can be used in much more positive ways than that, and not just in the office. Post-Its can be used by anyone, even as a kitchen appliance so leave notes on the fridge for your husband/kids/mum without leaving sticky marks everywhere or without having to invest in a drawing/cork board. The Post-It note popularity came out in the 1980s to 90s, when it started being marketed to the public, and since then has come out in a range of colours. I think what makes the Post-It so popular is that you can write...

Stephoohla 19.08.2009 · Read review
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Post Office Travel Money Card

Advantages: Straightforward to buy, some excellent "helpline" staff
Disadvantages: Failure to activate, absence of 24 hour qualified support, no back up

...This product, promoted as "the safe and easy way to carry cash abroad", appears perfect for young people embarking on foreign travel, and the claim is no doubt sometimes fair. The card is sold in Foreign Exchange branches of the Post Office and, after loading up initially with £250+ worth of currency (sterling, euros or US dollars) should be able to be used at Visa Electron outlets worldwide for cash, purchases and services. A further attraction is that it can, theoretically at least, be topped up with £50 at a time via the phone* or at a branch - potentially by family or friends if necessary. This was probably it's main recommendation from my point of view. The advice that "you can pop in...and walk away with your card" is also accurate but doesn't mention that it cannot be activated for up to 2 days. When we phoned 24 hours after...

badnewsbear 29.08.2007 (05.03.2008) · Read review
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Thomas Post can be fun and naughty

Advantages: lots of cool actions, price, idea
Disadvantages: lack of little people and props

..., Thomas, Percy and the chopper Harold, a ball dispenser and 2 pylons, the post office encasing a chopper moving mechanism, 2 bolsters for it, the mount for Harold, a small curved ramp for the balls, a serpentine with some ball collector and some other 2 pylons, 4 L shaped tracks, 1 T shaped, 2 short straight, 1 long straight, one special with some place for placing the dispenser, one special for the serpentine and the collector, 2 ramps different in length, a bridge where the engine exchange takes place, some 8 or so small balls, a sticker pad and the blueprint for it, and the blueprint for the whole course (which is imperative to safe keep it). Engines do not have their personal propulsion, the little car does it. Picks them up and drives them from one place to another, engines have some mobile tows, and Harold has it's mobile case which...

rusema2 26.09.2009 · Read review
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The Office

Advantages: Funny, nice love story, comedy
Disadvantages: None

...The Office has to be one of the funniest sitcoms of recent times. Any one who has ever worked in an office environment can relate I think to the situations the actors find themselves in and probably have a similar story of their own as well. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so funny and became so successful. The Office I think was different because it approached the sitcom genre in an interesting way by having the format of a documentary. The office in question was that of Wernham Hogg Paper Company based in Slough, Berkshire. They had a camera crew in the office that basically filmed their every day lives in the office and all the drama and relationships that come with that. Like I?ve said, even though the show was made in the form of a documentary the show was fictional and scripted. It was interesting though because...

Spottydog11 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Post Office Broadband and Home phone Standard

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Poor customer services

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drifter99 07.02.2009 · Read review
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Broadband Sneaks

Advantages: No longer a reliable broadband service
Disadvantages: Reduce download speed if they can get away with it

...I've added an update to the end of this review. See below. It's been nearly a year now since I started my contract for Post Office Broadband. My package also includes Post Office Home Phone so the review also includes a few details about the phone line service. The monthly charge for my phone line and broadband is roughly £22 for the whole package. I now see that the same package is available for £19.95. They offer various packages that you can check on their website www.postoffice.co.uk. My package includes monthly phone line rental and the broadband service and is a twelve months contract. I knew there were slightly cheaper packages out there but I got tired of looking around and reading so many bad reviews. I'd had previous bad experiences with Tiscali and of course the awful BT - the rip off merchants from hell. I constantly warn...

Zmugzy 15.12.2008 (13.01.2009) · Read review
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Thanks to the BFPO he gets even more annoyed.

Advantages: simple to use, can really brighten a day
Disadvantages: none

...As with my previous e-bluey review, this isnt a service which everyone will use, but it is one which is essential to anyone who has a loved one serving in the Armed Forces. The British Forces Post Office does exactly what it says on the tin, its the postal service which will deliver letters or parcels to anywhere the Army, Navy or Airforce are based from Garrisons abroad in Germany and Ireland to bases in Operational areas like Iraq, Afghanistan and even bases which are under the UN or NATO mandates, anywhere a British Service person could be there will be a BFPO number to match. A BFPO number is the equivalent of a UK postcode, each number refers to an individual base, and coupled with a service persons name and rank would be sufficient to get mail to them (as I have done more than once), but ideally you also need a service number...

scuba_angel 25.09.2007 · Read review
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