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Traditional Greeting Cards & Gifts Store since 2016, promoting ‘Designed & Printed in UK’ with an aim to spread smiles to you and your family.

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A perfect thank you gift 🍎

Show your appreciation with a One4all Gift Card, they can spend directly in-store and online with 100s of retailers on 1000s of brands.

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Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter 🐣

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🌙🕌 Ramadan Mubarak from all of us !
As we embrace this blessed month of reflection and giving, let your messages of love and peace reach every corner✨.
#Ramadan

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🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🌈✨

Today, we’re celebrating the spirit of community and the luck of the Irish! Whether you’re sporting green or sharing a smile, let’s spread joy and good vibes together!

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Give the gift of choice with a Mother’s Day Gift Card. 💝
Because she deserves something as special as she is.

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As we welcome the Year of the Horse, here’s to a year that moves with energy and purpose 🐎

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Renew your photocard driving license

We’ll help you get it done right first time

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We’ll sort your passport

Apply or renew in branch with our Check & Send Services

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Happy New Year from all of us ! ✨ Wishing you all a year filled with joy, success, and new adventures.
#HappyNewYear

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#PostOfficeScandal Latest piece in the @DailyMail by the one and only @nickwallis

What happened to the executives who ruined so many lives during the Post Office scandal: NICK WALLIS who helped expose the debacle reveals the key figures still living VERY comfortably‼️

Two years ago next week, the ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office caused a national outcry after highlighting what has been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

The Horizon IT system, adopted by the Post Office in 1999, created false financial shortfalls in Post Office branches, for which sub-postmasters were held liable. Almost 1,000 sub-postmasters were prosecuted and some imprisoned, thousands more were affected, others died waiting for justice.

The scandal caused family breakdowns, loss of livelihoods, bankruptcy, and has been linked to at least 13 suicides. The statutory public inquiry into the scandal is due to deliver its final report in 2026. But while hundreds of wrongful convictions have now been quashed and compensation is being paid to claimants, at the time of writing 2,703 have not yet received a full and final settlement.

Meanwhile, what has happened to the executives responsible for sending innocent people to jail and ruining so many lives? As part of the six-year criminal investigation Operation Olympos, which has so far cost close to £10 million, the wheel of justice may finally be turning. It was announced this month that police are considering corporate manslaughter charges, focused on eight suspects and 53 ‘persons of interest’.

However, as an investigative journalist who helped to expose the scandal, I have discovered that, despite the misery they have caused, some significant figures behind the debacle are currently still living rather well.

THE MILLIONAIRE VICAR

During her time as head of the Post Office, the Reverend Paula Vennells also used to preach at St Owen’s, a beautiful church dating from the 13th century and set in a private country park in the village of Bromham, Bedfordshire. Throughout her Post Office tenure, Vennells denied the organisation had prosecuted innocent people. After Sir Alan Bates’ Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance successfully exposed that lie, Vennells retired from public life, ceasing clerical duties in 2021. But many parishioners spilling out of St Owen’s Sunday morning service say they see her regularly.

‘We all love her,’ says Pat, a church chorister. ‘She’s been an absolutely first-class preacher and she’s had to give it all up… She’s taken it on the chin. She has lost a lot of weight.’

Vennells (portrayed in the TV drama by Lia Williams) was appointed Post Office CEO in 2012, after five years as a senior executive within the organisation. She took the top job knowing that dozens of former sub-postmasters were claiming their lives had been ruined by the Post Office’s vindictive culture and blind faith in the reliability of its faulty Horizon IT system.

Vennells took a dim view of the sub-postmasters’ campaign, telling colleagues in an email that a TV report about their plight ‘bored’ her. A year into Vennells’ tenure, Martin Griffiths, a sub-postmaster from Cheshire, took his own life after being hounded for mysterious cash discrepancies that kept appearing in his branch accounts.

Griffiths’ tragic death was a key storyline in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office. What the makers of the drama didn’t know was that when news of Griffiths’ suicide reached her, the Reverend Vennells told her colleagues he might have had previous mental-health and family issues. She emailed her staff, instructing them to dig for information.

Chatting to people outside St Owen’s, I found that admiration for Vennells was tempered by one parishioner, who asked to remain anonymous. He told me he had seen Vennells ‘presiding over the odd funeral and thought, “That’s that bloody woman! She needs to be prosecuted. People’s lives were destroyed!”

Read the full piece👇
https://t.co/pPZ6FtLA8h

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Merry Christmas from us all @ Barton Seagrave Post Office ! We are grateful for your continued support this year, we wish you a wonderful festive season and a Happy New Year! 🎁🎄#MerryChristmas

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🎄 Keep your Christmas deliveries stress-free! This festive season, make sure your parcels arrive safely and on time. Choose services with tracking or proof of delivery for extra peace of mind when sending gifts to loved ones.

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We are so honoured and privileged to run a Post Office to help and support our community!
We are always here to help and thank you for your continued support ! 😊🙏🌲

#Community #BartonSeagrave #SuppotingLocal #PostOffice #Christmas

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When you’re out – we’re in 😊

If you’re bagging Black Friday bargains but won’t be at home to receive them, choose Post Office as your delivery location at checkout and we’ll keep them safe in branch till you’re ready to collect.

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Gentle reminder: the clocks will go back this weekend, meaning we’ll get an extra hour in bed! Don’t forget to wind your manual clocks back before you go to sleep on Saturday. ⏰

#DaylightSaving

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The Government has published its Green Paper on the future of the Post Office. This is a public consultation, which means anyone can take part.
The consultation is open until 6th October and you can submit your response here: https://t.co/Qtp1L9Xi60

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This winter, 2.7 more million UK households could get £150 off energy bills through the government's Warm Home Discount.

Don’t risk missing out - make sure you act by 24 August!

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Say adios to your holiday admin and sort it all in one place.

Find out more: https://t.co/8IQLebkToG , or pop by and see us in branch!