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American Express has launched a new cashback deal in association with the Post Office – and a pretty generous one at that.

I wrote back in April about how the Post Office had begun to accept Amex cards.  This offer is presumably part of that deal.

You can receive £5 cashback on your American Express card when you spend £10 at a Post Office before 29th July.

At the time of writing this deal is NOT on the cardmemberoffers.co.uk website.  This means that you can only access it via the ‘Offers’ section of your online American Express statement.  Only Amex-issued American Express cards (Gold, Platinum, BA, SPG, Nectar etc) will count.

You cannot register supplementary cards separately because the offer is only visible via the online Amex account of the main cardholder.

20,000 registrations will be accepted.  Given that you have two months to make a £10 purchase, it would be sensible to register all of your applicable cards.

The obvious thing to purchase is £10 of stamps, but any purchase for which American Express is accepted at the Post Office will do the trick.  Most Post Offices sell ‘One4all’ gift cards, usable in many High Street retailers, which is another possible option.

The main restriction is that online transactions and transactions made via a self-service machine in a Post Office branch do not count.

If you only have an Amex card issued by MBNA, Lloyds or TSB don’t be too concerned – there is a decent chance that this offer will eventually migrate to the cardmembersoffers.co.uk site.

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Comments (90)

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  • The Urbanite says:
    1 Jun1 June 11:38

    Cheers. Registered and paid my NIC bill with the Lloyds Amex! It’s showing in my Gold card offers but not BAPP… How odd.

  • Mark says:
    1 Jun1 June 12:14

    Our local post office is within a One Stop convenience store and it hasn’t triggered the acknowledgement email when I spent the £10 – it might be that they share a payment system with the shop and that it only works with standalone Post Office branches…

    • Lionel says:
      1 Jun1 June 12:23

      You spent the £10 on groceries lol

      Has to be PO counter products

      • Mark says:
        1 Jun1 June 13:00

        No I spent it on postage and stamps at a post office counter.
        “Lol.”

        • Lionel says:
          1 Jun1 June 13:05

          Well your theory is incorrect lol

          My PO is in a Costcutter & it worked fine this morning x 2 😉

          • Mark says:
            1 Jun1 June 13:11

            Thanks for the relevant reply this time – good to know 😉

          • The_Real_A says:
            1 Jun1 June 23:52

            You can check the list of PO stores on the offer website, AMEX are usually very good at issuing ex Gratia credits when things do not post. I had this several times during the “small shop £5” campaign last year

  • Lynda bowen says:
    1 Jun1 June 12:26

    Offer is live on my account now…

  • d4ve says:
    1 Jun1 June 15:57

    I get an ‘invitation only’ message.

    • Jon says:
      1 Jun1 June 15:58

      It is meant to be for preferred rewards gold cards only. I had hoped it would work for everyone.

  • CardiffJock says:
    1 Jun1 June 16:01

    Thanks I was straight on that with my Preferred Rewards Gold. Do you know if it will work for Supplementary card holders, as my wife is supplementary holder on this account (and card has different number…)?

    Thx

    • Jon says:
      1 Jun1 June 16:03

      Cant hurt to try

      • CardiffJock says:
        1 Jun1 June 16:15

        No dice with the sup card, got the ‘Invitation Only’ message on that one. Thanks for the heads up 🙂

    • Lionel says:
      1 Jun1 June 16:17

      Doesn’t work for our supplementary Gold

      • Lionel says:
        1 Jun1 June 17:16

        Cracking hotel deal!

        I take it on my flight above I’d also get nearly 1000 + 106 = 1100 Avios.

        Probably worth another tenner off.

        One way to take on the cheapo carriers 🙂

  • Lionel says:
    1 Jun1 June 16:11

    I’ve got 5 on mine but 4 are useless.

    Other people seem to be getting 12% on Shell which would be good

  • Rob says:
    1 Jun1 June 16:39

    Gold only

    • Matthew says:
      1 Jun1 June 17:45

      Isn’t there normally a Platinum version of this?! Hope so for all that fee I’m paying!

  • Lionel says:
    1 Jun1 June 18:30

    I shouldn’t hang about on the free £50 for Gold cardholders (travel) – there are only 5000 up for grabs.

    Too good to be true, really. (See earlier comments here).

    A genuine free £50 for virtually all of us 🙂

    • polly says:
      1 Jun1 June 19:18

      Let’s hope the plat card holders get our offer later this week. It’s a really good one. Got our CPH raddisson down to £58 for our overnight in October. Just need the plat offer now for night on the way back!

      • Lionel says:
        1 Jun1 June 19:35

        Yep. Luckily it has gone down like a lead balloon on the people’s deals site so not much competition from there. The users don’t get it/ appreciate it.

        I get the impression Amex marketing doods watch registration rates then roll out deals a bit more widely when it looks like they won’t hit capacity very soon.

        Might just be a window for supps though I guess plats would be higher up the pecking order. They (plats) should have been higher in the first place, I guess – makes me think maybe there’s hope yet for supps as maybe thinking is plats are catered for well enough already and no need for them to get every deal first if at all.

      • Lionel says:
        1 Jun1 June 19:40

        CPH Radisson £58 sounds a bit like £100+ off not £50 off

        • Polly says:
          1 Jun1 June 20:09

          Basic room! But we have status with our plat cards which will give us an upgrade. Def a bargain!

          • Lionel says:
            1 Jun1 June 20:47

            Sounds good.

            Is there a place for him & her to have separate Gold cards, given the deals? Ie x2, no supp.

            Is there a place to enrol a few kids/ the dog as supps, given the deals?

            I’m certainly reconsidering cancelling, waiting 6 months, re-applying. The deals are too good to miss.

          • Polly says:
            1 Jun1 June 21:11

            We wish, we refer each other each year for plat, so always one main plus supp, and our daughter gets a gold every 20/12 sadly, holds it for a year, then cancels, then applies after 8/12. Usual pattern on this site. So answer is no, unfortunately. Or you both hold it for a year, etc. etc

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