If your
local Post Office is in a shop that is going to be open (like WH Smith), the Post Office should be open with the shop.
As bank branch numbers continue to fall,
local Post Offices have become increasingly important to local communities.
Dave Whitney, vice chairman of the citys planning and zoning commission, led a petition drive that yielded 1,000 signatures in favor of bringing back a
local post office.
There will be access to banking services at the
local Post Office currently located at 50 High Street.
A survey of 800 rural residents also showed that one in five believed they would lose contact with neighbours of friends if their
local post office closed.
I know they are advising people to use their
local post office and whilst I support the Post Office, it's a shame we are losing banks."
They took the closure of the post office by the scruff of the neck and decided to put an action plan together and on Monday, October 27, we finally see the opening of a
local post office in Martin McColls.
She said: "Despite repeated calls from Labour MPs and the National Federation of Sub-postmasters, the Government is refusing to guarantee Royal Mail business to
local Post Offices. It is also refusing to specify a minimum number of outlets where people can post parcels and send letters by registered delivery, as other countries like Germany do.
Keeping Royal Mail in public hands is the only way it can be guaranteed that current services continue and
local post offices remain open.
THE Birmingham Mail was very support l -ive when Gordon Brown arrogantly refused to consult on the closure of our
local Post Offices.
ON Monday, February 15, I called at my
local Post Office in Maghull to send a recorded delivery letter.
DERA MURAD JAMALI, October 24, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Unidentified men have set records of
local Post Office on fire in a theft attempt here on Saturday.
My sadness concerns the loss of our
local post office, specially built to Post Office Ltd standards and for which our village was grant aided for a community regeneration scheme.
But the true value of
local post office staff who know their customers well has been highlighted in Huddersfield.
Help the Aged said older people are a primary customer base for the post office, with thousands collecting their pensions direct from their
local post office each week.