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Post Office network shake-up boosts payments to postmasters as area manager role set to be phased out

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Investment in better self-service kiosks, increased commission payments for postmasters and a £120m branch modernisation programme are just some of the improvements being rolled out by the Post Office as it looks to introduce a “new deal for postmasters” in the wake of the Horizon…

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