The Post Office is "considering the future" of its Harold Hill branch as part of a major shake-up of the business. 

A total of 115 Post Office branches are at risk of closure, according to the BBC - including the Harold Hill branch in Farnham Road. 

However, a spokesperson for the Post Office has not confirmed whether the Harold Hill branch is earmarked for closure, and has told the Recorder that "no announcement has been made about Harold Hill or any branch in the UK".

The Harold Hill Post Office is one of the business's directly managed branches and the spokesperson confirmed it is "considering the future" of these branches.

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A spokesperson for the Post Office said: "We are considering a range of options to reduce our central costs.

"This includes considering the future of our remaining directly managed branches (DMB), which are loss-making.

"We have long held a publicly-stated ambition to move to a fully franchised network and we are in dialogue with the unions about future options for the DMBs."

In a franchise scenario, the Harold Hill branch would be transferred to retail partners or postmasters instead of a permanent closure.

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In an announcement today (November 13), Post Office chairman Nigel Railton said that the business needs to have "an honest conversation" about its directly managed branches, in order to "strengthen the network".

Another directly managed post office in east London is the Canning Town branch in Barking Road.

Most of the 11,500 Post Office branches across the UK are run by independent postmasters or retailers such as WH Smith and Morrisons.