2500 Post Offices to close

.... another wonderful gesture from this government which seems hell bent on dismantlingthe countrybit by bit.</p>

Vote Labour - Pay later!</p>

 

great now were going to have to wait for 3 hours in a line of pensioners to post a letter (rather than one)

 

I can't remember the last time I went in a post office, yes I know the requirement for many people but it's one of those things that fewer people are using. Used to use it for paying gas and electric bills etc, but now those on direct debit, as is TV licence (although that has been taken away from post office anyway), get stamps from the corner shop

Just this morning I overheard someone bemoaning the loss of a local shop and saying "It was a great shop, I can't believe it's closed, when I was last in there at Christmas........" Hmmmm I think there is your answer!

 

Local Shops

I was interested in a chronicle letter the other week from a lady complaining that all the waste food in her wheelie bin created a bad smell because the council only emptied once a fortnight.

Just why is she throwing away (wasting) so much food? As John Lennon would say, "They're starving back in China, so finish waht you got"!

Maybe more people could use the local shops and just purchase what they need? It might actually work out cheaper than the supermarket in the long run ...

 

We lost our local shop / post office a couple of years back

Shop owner was getting robbed, including once at gunpoint during broad daylight, every few weeks. Applied to put shutters on the windows to lock it up at night and the council turned it down after objections from locals that it would spoil the look of the conservation area (and hence devalue their properties). So now the shop is a house. And guess who were the first people complaining about the fact they'd lost the shop?

Being largely a dormitory village the people who complained all head off to Tesco every few days in their 4x4s. Many elderly residents on the other hand (the natives, you might say) have to make do with a weekly, voluntarily run minibus into town.

I'm really sick of this country. It's the people as much as the politicians. You really do get the government you deserve.

 

One Post Office for Leeds. People spend ages queuing

there, particularly at lunch time, it's madness.

 

Who were the first people to complain?

I'm thinking either the people who used to rob it cause they'd lost their income or the people who bought it as a house.

 

Probably the latter

It's not a very nice house. And people with shotguns still keep turning up demanding all their money and ciggies.

 

If People Use.......

post offices or not, they are a part of our traditional English culture and it's pretty sad so many are shutting.

 

Drowning witches is a part of our traditional English culture.

It's pretty sad that we stopped doing that. The broomstick-weilding cows.

 

lol! nt

 

Thats just ridiculous

theyve cluosed 3 of our local ones (all busy) in recent years and the queues at the ones that are left are ridiculous .

 

Can you explain to me

What exactly it has to do with the government? The government has no powers at all to prevent post office closures.

 

+++++ JUST FOR YOU BRIGHT RED +++++

I think you will find that Mr Alistair Darling (Trade and Industry Secretary) has quite a bit to do with the government of this country.</p>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6664109.stm</p>

 

Oh - and while we're at it.......

This might interest us all too.</p>

Especially if we end up having to go to travel to Leeds or Sheffield when we're in trouble, or Wakefield are all coming here.</p>

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1801190.ece</p>

 

there's 2 nt

 

part of english culture???????????????

(blagger)

complete B*ll*cks. are traffic lights part of our culture? there are plenty of them

 

This is a disgrace...

an unacceptable faced of today's Labour Party is the creeping acceptance of privatisation. Royal Mail will be sold off eventually and the govt are getting rid of teh loss makers to ensure it can be sold. Only doing what Thatcher did to everything else (were you as pissed off then, Red Rag?) and it's toss

 

You can be as shirty as you like..

and I have read the article that Red Rag linked to but what I said is actually correct. The government do not have the power to stop any post office closing. Darling can announce what subsidy the government are prepared to give the Royal Mail and Ppstcomm can make recomendations but in the end it's down to the Holding Company.