From: "tim" <520061495900.removethis@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: P.O. Box and phone
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:44:37 +0200
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"Roman Vasin"  wrote in message news:bmlm2n$ali$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr...
> Hello,
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> Sorry it's not finance question, but I think it's related.
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> We have non-UK company. We would like to have a virtual presence in UK. We
> need P.O. Box. Is it possible for non-UK resident to open a P.O. Box in UK
> (London)? 

Oficially no.  To have a PO box you must have a real UK address linked
to it.  This address will not be kept secret by the PO, they will tell it to
anybody who asks (it is a requirement that they do so).  You could have 
a 'friend' set up the PO box for you, and if you don't have a suitable person 
to act for you, there are many who will do so for a fee.

>Could we use Royal mail or whatever for that purpose?  What we
> need: P.O. Box or Street Address which automatically forwards mail to our
> home address.

As in to your foriegn address?  No chance, you can either choose to collect 
from the 'box' or have it redirected to the real address, you cannot redirect 
to a third party.  Though you could just set up a normal 'redirect' but there
is a time limit of IIRC two years for which they will do this, there is a surcharge
for redirects to overseas addresses but I don't know how they collect this?

What you need is a paid for secretarial service.  Comes in at around 15 GBP
per week, plus postage at cost, plus a surcharge.

> The same for phone:  UK phone number that is redirected to our home or
> auto-responder.

I think that this is much easier.  Even companies with a physical UK presence 
have their phone lines redirected to overseas call centres.

tim

> Which services can we use for that purpose?
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> Kind regards,
> Roman Vasin
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