I would just like to ask a little favour of the readers who pass by my blog, and that is to help me oppose the proposed closure of my local Post Office.
As many of you will be aware this unique 'British' establishment that serves our local communities has fallen foul of the unelected EU bureaucrats in Brussels. And our weak and cowardly government are allowing the continuing destruction of just such British institutions as that of our local Post Offices!
We cannot allow the closure of our local Post Office, it will mean the end of an easy and safe access that my mother and father have previously enjoyed and who have relied on this particular Post Office, not only to do their banking and such like, but also as a community gathering on certain days of the week, when they meet up with their neighbours and friends alike to discuss local topical issues and current affairs in general.
As one of two alternatives, if once again this proposed closure gets the go-ahead and that is either a walk of at least a couple of miles over a steep bridge and additionally will have to cross a busy major road to reach the next nearest Post Office. The thought of many of these elderly and infirm amongst us having to navigate that route is very worrying to say the least. The other alternative is a bus ride into Leigh town centre to the main Post Office, and many have expressed their anxiety of doing monetary transaction in a town centre that has seen a hugh spate of muggings in recent months mainly on the elderly, by individuals not indigenous to these lands! And that the authorities seem powerless to intervene.
So, If you can please copy and paste the brief objection letter below; to the following e-mail address I'd be very grateful. Thank you.
Dear Richard Lynds,
I would like to take this opportunity in objecting to the proposed closure of the Post Office on Manchester Road, Leigh, Lancashire WN7.
I find it totally unreasonable and unjust for the local community that such a proposal of closure should even be considered.
Yours objecting.
YOUR NAME
2 comments:
Done.
My nearest post office at the bottom of Gidlow Lane was closed a couple of years back. Now I have to go into Wigan town centre to the main post office there.
There is always a long queue. When the queue gets shorter desk staff are removed to do other jobs, so maintaining the queue.
The post office gains extra profit by having to hire fewer staff because they switch staff between tasks (and therefore fewer jobs for local people). We the people pay for that gain - not in money but in time: the time spent queueing.
You might like to support the postal staff next time they strike to try and stop these changes that are being introduced. It is my belief that these changes are being introduced to make the postal service so bad that one day, the senior management and the politicians can turn around and say - the only way to improve the service is to privatise it. Who will gain from that? Well, who gained from privatisation of the utilities, railroads, Telecom etc? THE MANAGEMENT IN PLACE AT THE TIME OF PRIVATISATION! Salary rises, share options - the works. Why do you think the senior post office management are going along with this game?
Who loses? We the public, in higher prices and reduced services. And the lower level post office staff through reduced pay rises, layoffs, contract labour (probably from Eastern Europe).
It's nothing better than a racket - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Naturally, your MP supports this (he's going to need a well-paying job in a couple of years, after the next general election). Write to him and ask. Tell him what I've said here and ask him what he thinks of it. Tell him and ask him as if you are telling/asking him off your own bat. Do it in large numbers. Do it via this website - because this website monitors the responses of MPs to check who answers their mail and who doesn't; and the MPs know this so they are more likely to answer you:
http://www.writetothem.com/
Thanks for the response Sir Henry and well said.
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