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Companies House record

Source: Companies House · Fetched 26 October 2026 · values copied as returned · How we collect this

Registered name
POST OFFICE LIMITED
Company number
02154540
Company status
active
Incorporated
13 August 1987
Registered office
100 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7ER, United Kingdom
SIC codes
47190, 53100, 61900, 64999
Latest accounts made up to
30 March 2025
Next accounts due
31 December 2026
Accounts overdue (as recorded by Companies House)
No

Persons with significant control

  • Secretary Of State For Business And Tradeownership of shares 75 to 100 percent; right to appoint and remove directors · notified 6 April 2016

How this company was identified: Searched for the trading name and its UK variant; accepted only because exactly one active company has the trading name plus a legal-form suffix and a banking or payments SIC code. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House. Names are shown as published on the public register; see our privacy notice.

Ownership, accounts and filings

Source: Companies House · Fetched 26 October 2026 · values copied as filed · How we collect this

Who owns the company

  1. Owner of the company behind Post OfficeSecretary Of State For Business And Tradeownership of shares 75 to 100 percent; right to appoint and remove directorsAs recorded at Companies House

Corporate owners recorded as persons with significant control, copied as Companies House records them and followed up the chain only while each is a single owner registered there under the same name. Individuals are not shown.

Figures from the latest accounts

The latest accounts, made up to 30 March 2025, were not filed in a machine-readable form, so no figures are copied here. See the filing at Companies House.

Registered charges

8 registered, of which 0 satisfied and 8 not recorded as satisfied. See the charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender, such as a debenture or mortgage.

Previous company names

  • POST OFFICE COUNTERS LTD · 13 August 1987 to 1 October 2001
Filing timeline (30 most recent filings shown)
  1. 30 December 2025Accounts filed, made up to 2025-03-30
  2. 18 December 2025Charge registered or updated
  3. 18 December 2025Charge registered or updated
  4. 18 December 2025Charge registered or updated
  5. 28 October 2025Confirmation statement filed
  6. 13 June 2025Confirmation statement filed
  7. 30 May 2025Charge registered or updated
  8. 23 December 2024Accounts filed, made up to 2024-03-31
  9. 24 June 2024Confirmation statement filed
  10. 30 December 2023Accounts filed, made up to 2023-03-26
  11. 29 June 2023Confirmation statement filed
  12. 6 June 2023Registered office address changed
  13. 1 March 2023Accounts filed, made up to 2022-03-28
  14. 5 January 2023Resolution filed
  15. 5 January 2023Company incorporated
  16. 13 June 2022Confirmation statement filed
  17. 16 May 2022Accounts filed, made up to 2021-03-28
  18. 12 April 2022Resolution filed
  19. 8 April 2022Share capital filing
  20. 23 June 2021Confirmation statement filed
  21. 11 April 2021Resolution filed
  22. 8 April 2021Accounts filed, made up to 2020-03-29
  23. 1 April 2021Share capital filing
  24. 19 March 2021Charge registered or updated
  25. 11 June 2020Confirmation statement filed
  26. 23 April 2020Resolution filed
  27. 22 April 2020Company incorporated
  28. 22 October 2019Accounts filed, made up to 2019-03-31
  29. 24 June 2019Confirmation statement filed
  30. 16 October 2018Accounts filed, made up to 2018-03-31

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, source Companies House.

Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service

Source: Financial Ombudsman Service, half-yearly business complaints data · Fetched 26 October 2026 · figures copied as published · How we collect this

POST OFFICE LIMITED does not appear in the Ombudsman’s published data for H1 2026 or H2 2025. The Ombudsman publishes figures only for businesses with at least 30 new and 30 resolved complaints in the six months.

“Upheld” means the Ombudsman decided in the consumer’s favour. A business is linked to a provider only when the Ombudsman publishes it under exactly the registered company name we hold from Companies House. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Financial Ombudsman Service, business complaints data H1 2026.

Data coverage

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Identity

Registered company name
Source material collected · Companies HouseCopied from the source by software
FCA number, as stated by the provider
No source material collected · Provider websiteQuoted word for word, with a link to the source
Company number, incorporation date, registered office
Source material collected · Companies HouseCopied from the source by software
Persons with significant control
Source material collected · Companies HouseCopied from the source by software

Regulation

Provider's regulatory statement
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Status, restrictions and requirements
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Registered agents (count)
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How customer money is safeguarded
No source material collected · Provider terms and conditionsQuoted word for word, with a link to the source

Financial health

Latest accounts date, overdue accounts flag
Source material collected · Companies HouseCopied from the source by software
Revenue and profit (where filed)
No source material collected · Filed accounts at Companies HouseCopied from the source by software

Complaints

Complaint volumes and uphold rate (where published)
Source material collected · Financial Ombudsman ServiceCopied from the source by software

Product

Countries and currencies served
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Service availability
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Delivery times and payment cut-offs
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Payout methods (bank, cash pickup, mobile wallet)
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Fees, limits, minimums
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ID documents required
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About this profile

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