Sentence examples for postal accounts from inspiring English sources

These are postal accounts, though there is an online facility called Interactive.

The bank is bracing itself for a flood of withdrawal requests in the post from savers with postal accounts.

Holders of postal accounts and offshore accounts were flightier.In truth, banks need to have a diverse set of funding sources and maturities, whether wholesale or retail.

Part of the rationale for splitting up Japan's 136-year-old post office is to increase the financial returns on the ¥188trn (US$1.6trn) worth of savings deposits held in postal accounts.

With an eye on the rural vote, the Commons trade and industry committee this week urged greater government support for the post-office network.Almost 400 MPs have also signed an early-day motion asking the government to carry on paying pensions and benefits into the postal accounts held by more than 4m people.

In 2003 the government began paying benefits and pensions directly into bank accounts as well as into postal accounts, and this year the BBC stopped selling television licences through post-office branches.This shift of services has trimmed annual income across the post-office network by more than £400m, according to some estimates.

Interest rates on savings in building societies (and banks) are higher than elsewhere in Europe, and in the short term it would be easy and wise to set up a postal account to get a small amount of your money earning interest.

Deposits held in postal savings accounts nominally earn a scant 0.11percentt a year, but deflation has lifted the real return by almost 2 percentage points over two years.

Japan's post office has sent trucks around the affected area to enable people to withdraw cash from their postal bank accounts.

The Development Bank, which is financed by public pensions and government-run postal savings accounts, would join Daiei's lenders in a 60 billion yen ($480 million) fund to support the retailer.

Mr. Carper's bill most closely aligns with what the Postal Service wants, including provisions that would allow for elimination of Saturday deliveries and refunding of surpluses in postal retirement accounts.