With more than 600 main post offices and 18, 000 sub-post offices handling 20 billion letters a year, the service has not only deep roots but strong allies.
Moffett notes that the 400, 000 net post-paid sub adds were below the consensus at 541, 000.
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Ms Cairns has run the sub post office in Dunmurry for eight years and her father ran it for nearly 50 years.
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Wendy Cairns, who runs Dunmurry sub post office, is among those calling for urgent action to safeguard the network of rural post offices.
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An initial three-month pilot phase will see up to 50 kiosks installed mainly in market town-based sub post offices, with a further 50 added every three months.
Crown offices are Post Office branches directly managed by the company - as opposed to locally-run by sub-post offices - mainly based in major High Streets.
From its early days, the Post Office employed women often as sub-postmistresses, running post offices as part of their business, or as postwomen, particularly in rural areas when men were not available.
Islanders are split on the way forward for Jersey Post, but, according to a recent public consultation responded to by 480 people, the majority are against removing sub-post offices.
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The sub-post office is often the last business left in poor areas after other shops close.
He has argued that greater thought should be given to how postal services are delivered to country parishes, and believes a network of sub-post offices should be maintained.
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More than half of those who took part in the consultation were against closing sub-post offices, suggesting they should be put at parish halls or supermarkets to reduce costs.
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He also notes that wireless service revenue growth is slowing rapidly, to 4.3% in Q3 from 10.5% in the same quarter a year ago, as post ARPU and postpaid sub growth have been decelerating.
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But apart from his slip at the last, Lowry produced remarkable golf to post one of only seven sub-par rounds, and his performance was arguably even more impressive than his stunning 62 on Friday.
In a recent blog post, Paul Krugman noted that the sub 2.5% increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past few years are all that is needed to prove me wrong.
Nick Vink, the South Africa expert I cited in the blog post, told me that there are growing markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
How should the Bank operate in the 30 or so remaining low-income clients, nearly all in sub-Saharan Africa and mostly fragile or post-conflict states, the precise places where the Bank has had the least success ?
Councillor Alasdair Christie, chairman of the adult and children's services sub committee, told BBC Radio Scotland that recruiting to the post had been challenging.
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The National Federation of Sub-Postmasters said that the decision was vital for the future of the post office network.
"This contract means the public and businesses will continue to have convenient, local access to essential services while sub-postmasters will retain income to allow them to continue to provide a Post Office service to their communities, " said the federation's general secretary, George Thomson.
However limited and limiting this conception might sound, the EU has managed to carve out an impressive role for itself in conflict prevention, post-conflict reconstruction and dealing with minor military contingencies in places ranging from the Balkans to Indonesia to sub-Saharan Africa.
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