Tuesday 5 August 2008

Holiday time but Royal Mail keep closing Post Offices

This was going to be a quick note to let you know that Having been demob happy for the last couple of days I will be taking a break (until the weekend). Well I am. But I also learned today that there are four more Local Post Offices targeted for closures in the WMDC district.

I have just listened to Jon Trickett MP for Hemsworth complaining about Royal Mail and their secret list for closures and the fact that there is insufficient time for consultation. He (Trickett that is) was another of our local MPs who voted down the proposal to freeze the closures and review the flawed consultation process on March 19th. He let his constituents down then and it will be interesting to see if he can save anything from that fiasco.

For the elderly, those members of the community who are disadvantaged and those with mobility issues he has his work cut out.