Comments on: In Praise of the Post Office http://blog.nickbourne.org.uk/2006/11/29/in-praise-of-the-post-office/ Leader of the Conservatives in the Welsh Assembly Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: blamerbell http://blog.nickbourne.org.uk/2006/11/29/in-praise-of-the-post-office/#comment-69 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:30:12 +0000 http://blog.nickbourne.org.uk/2006/11/29/in-praise-of-the-post-office/#comment-69 "It strikes me we have to look at imaginative ways of providing the network. Sometimes this will be mobile Post Offices, sometimes it will be Post Offices in unusual locations like Churches or Pubs. I have no problem with that..." I was at a wonderful village post office in Merthyr the other day. More of a community centre than a post office really. Politicians should understand that post offices aren't all about providing services, but rather a sense of community. That's something that can't be moved, broken up or put into official statistics. “It strikes me we have to look at imaginative ways of providing the network. Sometimes this will be mobile Post Offices, sometimes it will be Post Offices in unusual locations like Churches or Pubs. I have no problem with that…”

I was at a wonderful village post office in Merthyr the other day. More of a community centre than a post office really. Politicians should understand that post offices aren’t all about providing services, but rather a sense of community. That’s something that can’t be moved, broken up or put into official statistics.

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