<P> On 8 February 2013, Post Office Ltd announced it was planning to move around seventy of its Crown post offices into shops . This would reduce the Crown network, which it stated was losing £ 40 million a year, to around 300 . </P> <P> On 27 November 2013, the government committed an additional £ 640 million of funding for 2015 to 2018 to allow Post Office Ltd to complete its network modernisation . </P> <P> There are currently around 11,500 post office branches across the UK, of which 300 are directly managed by Post Office Ltd (known as Crown offices). The majority of other branches are either run by various franchise partners or local subpostmaster or operators (who may be members of the National Federation of SubPostmasters or the CWU Postmasters Branch), as "sub-postoffices". </P> <P> The Post Office has a wide variety of services throughout the network of branches . Products and services available vary throughout the network; main post offices generally provide the full range of services . </P>

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