I have PO phone and broadband since January 2020 acceptable service until December when phone stopped working broadband drops off every other day. I reported the fault when they tested the line it was OK but then I was cut off I called again and the engineer said there is a fault and it would take 3 days to put right after 6 days since reporting still not working every time I call it cuts me off after 12 minutes what can I do if I cant talk to them.

My Mother used this service and was in a nursing home. She sadly passed away on 18 August 2017 and I rang to cancel her contract on 22nd August. Spoke to a man who assured me the line would close within 24 hrs, and I also paid her outstanding bill. At the end of October ,when I had sorted Mum's finances, I rang to check there was nothing outstanding, and was told there was no notification of my Mum's account being closed and the line was still open, but also that she would check the recorded conversation and ring me back.......I heard nothing.the line would have to be closed on Nov 17th, which I couldn't understand, as this was 3 months after my Mum had died.. I was assured no further payment due, and that a closing statement would be sent to this effect. On 18 Nov I received a bill - addressed to my Mother, but at my address, for £75.This included rental paid in advance from Nov to Feb! Understandably very distressed, I rang again, but received no understanding or compassion for my distress , and was made to feel that I was rude and unreasonable! After my husband intervened, I am now waiting for a refund, as apparently rental had been paid in advance from Aug to Nov with the bill I paid on 22 Aug ...the man hadn't told me that. The service is unbelievably bad, totally incompetent, and useless. Also no customer care or understanding, and definitely no sympathy for anyone who has to deal with the aftermath of a death in the family.

I phoned to check about services for my very elderly mother. Despite being on the Telephone Preference Service, she's constantly getting nuisance calls, some quite abusive, some silent and menacing. She struggles to answer the phone and is upset by them. The Post Office were only interested in selling her 2 more packages increasing her monthly bill by about £8 and would not budge on price, a lot to her. B.T and Talk Talk provide a good level of "nuisance protection" for nothing.

Today is just another problem with the Post Office. Months ago we were having problems with our phone line and the repair person came out to fix it. The repair lasted only a few days before we had to phone them again. This was on the weekend. We were told they do not do repairs on weekends. So we thought, OK we'll just have to wait a few days. Early Sunday morning the doorbell went and it was the repairman! He said they normally don't come up on weekends but he was in the neighbour hood and was driving by anyway, so he decided to stop and repair our line. How thoughtful, so we thought! He spent awhile at our house and we were told that the previous repairman didn't do the repair correctly and has crossed some wire which made the line short out. The previous repairman also put a wrong part on it! So the repairman fixed the problem, and said he wasn't going to report the previous guy because he didn't want to get them in trouble. He said not to worry as there wouldn't be a charge for the repair work he did. Well, today we received our phone bill and was charged £120.00!!! I phone the phone company and after passing their security and telling them the problem they pass me over to the technical dept saying I needed to speak to them since my query was regarding a technical service charge. Once again, after passing the security questions again (because the person who transfered the call didn't tell the next person I passed the security!) I was told that that dept couldn't help that I needed the dept I spoke to first, so they passed me back again. OK, so now I'm told they couldn't do anything that I needed Customer Service! Customer Service couldn't help and said they had to pass the problem on to someone else to look out and that it would be 3 - 5 working days before I heard anything. Why!? When I owe them they want the payment today, so why is it so difficult for them to use some common sense and work out their own problems! I'm now looking for a new phone provider and in no circumstance would I refer the Post Office. Fortunately, we've already stopped our Broadband service with them. But that's another story.

appalling, shocking treatment of clients. I have never been treated so harshly. I have a fault with my phone line yet I came off the phone after speaking to them animals like I was at fault. they were not at all helpful in any way what so ever,so rude. Iam so dishearted with the lack of respect, these people where ........

post office phone company :-( totally annoyed with them. elderly ill aunts phone has got a fault, I rang them from my mobile while with her on Saturday to report it, I rang them Tuesday to ask what the status was, they said they had found the fault and were arranging for it to be fixed. PM Phone man arrives at aunts house, does his checks, says its in the road, does more tests and goes back and tells her its in the underground cabling and they need to dig up the road.6- 8 weeks for them to sort out. I ring Post Office customer care and ask them to get BT to put a divert on the line to her mobile, get told they cant do that as the guy I spoke to Saturday didn't put an ok to talk to me on their system, I said that's ridiculous you have rung me on my mobile to update me on the fault. Adamant as data protection wont put a divert on her number to her mobile on my say so! I asked him to please ring her, to add insult to injury he told me 'We cant ring her on her mobile to get the okay from her to put a divert on because we have no outgoing lines?' My reply ' You've just rung me' No that was a different department! When I asked to speak to a manager, he disappeared offline for 5 minutes and came back and said 'Manager said no there was no point him speaking to me because he wont do anything!!!!!' Really! Disgusting customer service Post Office

I was recently called by a guy who said he was from PO Phone Services and wanted to ask me questions about my a/c. I told him I didn't know who he was and i wasn't going to answer any questions. He then directed me to the Post office Customer Services Dept (0345 number) and said he would leave a note on my a/c about why he called. I did ring through to Customer Services and they said they had no knowledge of this and there was nothing on my a/c. I told them that this must have been a non-genuine call and they weren't a bit bothered.

Absolute disgrace..!! Phoned up to cancel my mum’s account after she had been in hospital for 5 months following a brain cancer operation. Supervisor I spoke to wouldn’t make any changes to the £37 a month account (that hasn’t been used for 5 months) until he spoke to a cancer doctor at the hospital.

Today is the 5th of July but I have been pestered by them on my mobile as apparently my bill is overdue. My next bill is to be paid on the 13th of July, in 8 days!!! They have been pestering me because I've decided to leave them as they left me in the lurch when I moved flat and I was left without a phone line for 2 weeks. I decided to switch because they wouldn't give me the same contract with the same service when I moved. I had to loose a lot of service for the same price. Although I told them I needed to be in touch with my elderly parents, they just didn't care. They refused to give me a sync code for my internet provider. When I insisted the lady was rude and tried to hang up on me. They pretended they didn't know what a sync code was!!! My internet provider was shoked and explained to me that they were lazy and that the sync code was basic stuff! For 2 weeks I had no phone and no internet. They were rude and are now pestering me although I have 8 days to pay my final bill. They are pestering me every couple of hours for a bill that is due in 8 days!! This company is amoral!

Date : 01.06.2016 Dear All, Ref: Post Office Telephone Terrible Company - Do Not Sign Up With Post Office : My Complaint With The Post Office As Been Going On From Start Of February 2016. They Are Responding To Me Via E-Mails. When You Call Their Numbers You Will Be Awaiting In A Long Queue Costing You Time And Money! This To-Date Is Still On-Going. I Have A Complaint Logged With Them And Ofcom Both Equally Incompetent With Addressing The Complaint Or Taking Ownership Of The Problems. The Complaint Is About The Following Areas: * Telephone Service Not Working. * Monthly Bills - They Changed Their Billing System Last Year And Put All Customers On Monthly Billing To State This Helps Customers With Their Finances. It Only Fills There Accounts With Our Hard Earned Cash. No Letters Sent To Customers To Inform Them. * Customer Agents Not Providing Full Names. * Engineer Charges Of £141.00 For B.T Open Reach Engineer To Come Out. * Poor Customer Services. I Am Still Awaiting For Something To Happen From Post Office. Please Do Not Sign Up With This Terrible Company. They Are All Useless And Do Not Think For Themselves They Are All Pigs!!!!!

My mother died and I needed to get the line disconnected. Was told it would take 15 days - why. Bill arrived and was paid. A final bill arrived which should have been for 2 days but was for another month. Rang was told not to pay the bill and another one was in the post. No bill arrived - rang again. Told to pay the bill this time and that they would credit me with the overpayment. The credit has now arrived but they will not cash it at the post office without Grant of Probate - despite the fact the bills were paid from my account not my mothers. The customer service is awful and have been cut off twice whilst "being transferred". Thank God I am with BT.

complained about my bill when the price went up and I was billed an extra £15 which was not explained, no one at the post offic could explain it, then I wrote to their HQ in Stirling and no reply 3.5 weeks later, emailed and no reply though told would get a reply in 5 days, emailed again and told that i would get a reply in 5 days- nothing.

I have been a Post Office Home Phone and Broadband customer for 5 years - the broadband has been unbelievably slow but we put up with it because it was cheap. We recently lost all phone service so we called them - they said they'd send out an engineer (which they did) but neglected mention how much it would cost!!!! I was informed by the engineer that if they tried to charge me to complain. Sure enough on my next bill was a charge for £144!!!! When I raised the query they said I had been informed of the cost when I called, which I hadn't because if they had told me it was going to cost that much I'd have cancelled the phone line as it was never used and we only had it out of habit! As I said we have been with them for 5 years never been late with a payment always abided by the term and conditions, and this is how they treat a good customer - by lying and ripping us off! STAY AWAY (sorry for the shouting but I wanted to make sure you heard me! The way they treat their customers stinks ans the way they talk to you on the phone is shameful - their customer 'service' providers are rude and the information they give you is incorrect (and sometimes downright lies!). I don't care how cheap they are that level of service is not worth any financial saving.

My mum is 90. She has a panic alarm system which is dependent on a working telephone line. Her line has been out of use for 5 days now. When I logged the fault I told them this, yet when I chased them again two days later they denied all knowledge. They also said that the engineers decide what to treat as priority! I get the distinct feeling they lie through their teeth. I have been assured today that fault would be fixed by midnight but I have serious doubts. If you're reading this with a view to having the Post Office as your supplier I would advise you not to. But then again, it depends how bad your existing supplier is I suppose. If the PO keep this up I will move my Mum's account back to BT. At least they own the line so the chain of command should be shorter...

My Dad is 90 & looks after my Mother who has Dementia. She has fallen several times and a landline is essential. Twice last year the line was not working. Spent loads of time and money ringing customer services. We were told loads of lies as to when service would be restored. Second time they even charged them £144 because they came inside the house when the fault was found outside. If you think you will save money changing to them think twice service is abysmal and they treat the elderly terribly

My phone line has been dead for 9 days and I have rung the 'customer care' team everyday. No phone line means no internet ! They have never rung me back even though they say they will. They cannot tell me what is holding up the 'fix'. They cannot tell me when it may be resolved. I have spent a lot of time calling them via my mobile. I have to go to a friends house to use the internet. The call handlers appear only to be a human messaging system and they do not have knowledge of progress of issue nor do they have the ability to escalate cases. I have written a formal complaint. As my contract is up in February I have already opted to change provider. My suggestion is - just don't bother using the Post Office as a Line Rental provider.