Royal Mail will issue their verdict about the future of Hardwick Road Post Office and the other 62 targeted for closure in West Yorkshire, tomorrow.
Hopefully the letters, petitions, arguments, comments, solid resistance from our community will have made an impact.
As Conservative Councillors, we have been criticised by our MP, the Minister for "politicking" in our fight for Hardwick Road Post Office, when we pointed out the flaws in the Governments closure programme and criticised her voting record on these and other Post Office closures (she voted for the closures to continue). We had over 2,500 people who signed our petition who did not agree with her government's actions on this closure programme and many who have since questioned her comments.
Anyhow I will report back when I know more on the outcome.
Wish us luck!
UPDATED: Have a look at the outcome here
Hopefully the letters, petitions, arguments, comments, solid resistance from our community will have made an impact.
As Conservative Councillors, we have been criticised by our MP, the Minister for "politicking" in our fight for Hardwick Road Post Office, when we pointed out the flaws in the Governments closure programme and criticised her voting record on these and other Post Office closures (she voted for the closures to continue). We had over 2,500 people who signed our petition who did not agree with her government's actions on this closure programme and many who have since questioned her comments.
Anyhow I will report back when I know more on the outcome.
Wish us luck!
UPDATED: Have a look at the outcome here
2 comments:
I do wish the best of luck. I wish we had had more luck in Hull and the East Riding.
Thanks Andrew, soon know what is happening. Looking at the Royal Mail's published determinations for other areas, they have only very rarely made an exception and shifted on decisions.
This one is clearly flawed, they admit that there are 13,000 people dependent on this particular PO and if they do close it a significant group will then fall outside their criteria.
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