2,500 more Post Offices to close
The Labour Government at Westminster this week confirmed that about 2,500 further Post Offices - a fifth of those left in the UK - are to close by 2009.
The Labour Party has alleged that four million fewer customers are using post offices – could that have anything to do with phasing out the Post Office Card Account and other service like passports, car tax and so on. Amongst many other schemes introduced by Labour this is ripping the heart out of our communities.
More than 4,000 post offices have shut in the past eight years and travelling in Mid and West Wales which I obviously do regularly and often see the effects first hand! People are proud and protective of their Post Offices and treasure them. They want to use the Post Office as their first point of call for services but the Labour Government does not want to listen. They want to centralise not localise services! At a time when Blair is debating his legacy, it is sad testament that his government is taking the axe to the Post Office network. His Government already held the record for closing Post Offices faster than any other and his announcement amounts to an acceleration of that rate of closure, shutting a further 2,500 branches over the next two years.
