Verdict
postoffice.co.uk appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official Post Office site content: services include postage, parcel quotes, banking, travel money, insurance, identity services and branch locators. Cookie and third-party service lists present. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 32 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19984690 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1998.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
What the website presents is a national postal and retail-services platform offering postage, parcel quotations and tracking, branch-locator tools, banking and bill-payment services, travel money, insurance, identity-related services, and online account access. Its apparent business model is service-fee revenue, product sales, and partner commissions across postal, retail, financial, and travel services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage content is coherent with an established Post Office service platform, and the reviewed login, search, and parcel-quotation functions did not show hidden forms, untrusted destinations, wallet activity, cloaking, or suspicious external submission behavior. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or brand-impersonation indicators, and no confirmed blacklist event. The domain’s long registration continuity and substantial archival record further support provenance consistent with an established website, although this does not independently verify the real-world operator identity.
- The homepage identifies a corporate/service operation covering postage, parcels, banking, travel, insurance, identity services, and branch locations; no red flags were recorded.
- The domain was registered in 1994 (~31.96 years old).
- The web archive records 4,690 snapshots spanning 1998–2026, covering 29 tracked years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or impersonation finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified by the supplied evidence. The site presents financial and insurance-related services, so licensing and product-provider responsibility remain matters for ordinary regulatory verification; the reviewed content did not identify a licensing authority or registration number. This is a disclosure and verification gap rather than evidence of a scam. MarkMonitor Inc. is identified as the domain registrar. The site’s transport encryption is valid, but domain-validated TLS confirms encrypted communication, not the legal identity of the operator.
- The homepage describes banking, credit, savings, money-transfer, travel-money, and insurance services, while no licensing authority or license number was identified in the reviewed content.
- The domain registrar is MarkMonitor Inc.
- The site’s TLS certificate was issued by YR2 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-12.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interaction, an institution or prospective user should independently confirm the responsible legal entity and any relevant financial-services permissions through the applicable official registry. Product-specific terms, fees, exclusions, refund or cancellation provisions, and payment-protection arrangements should be reviewed on the relevant service page. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independently sourced Post Office communication route.
- The homepage provides links for help and support, login, branch finding, postage, banking, travel, and insurance services that can be matched against the relevant official terms.
- The presence of a login form and parcel-quotation form makes it appropriate to confirm the destination and terms for each transaction before submission.
- The site includes cookie and third-party service information that can be reviewed alongside its privacy and service disclosures.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-trust, low-risk posture and appears consistent with an established legitimate service platform. The evidence contains no observed scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal, while operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is served through Akamai International B.V., NL, on AS20940, with Akamai CDN/WAF edge infrastructure observed across four IP addresses; no origin server address was exposed in the analysis. This architecture is a mitigating security and availability signal, but it is not proof of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary service use are proportionate to the observed posture; credential or payment actions should follow the independent merchant-identity, service-terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of postoffice.co.uk.
- The request stayed on postoffice.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Markmonitor Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net., across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1998-07-04. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in NL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Markmonitor Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | NL |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:7f::17d8:8693 |
| Name servers | a1-59.akam.net., a12-65.akam.net., a13-67.akam.net., a2-64.akam.net., a24-64.akam.net., a5-64.akam.net. |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-12 |
| Domain age | 31.96 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-03 |
| Archive first seen | 1998-07-04 |
| Archive snapshots | 4690 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about postoffice.co.uk at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.