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Post office closures - where do you stand?
Many post offices across Herts are still under threat from closure, and at last it seems that there is something locals can do to help stop them from closing.
Hertfordshire County Council is launching a webcast this week, pleading locals to fill out surveys and comment on why their post offices is important and must not be be closed.
Will you support the council here and take part?
How much difference to your day-to-day life would it make if your local post office was closed?
2 Comments
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We have a sub post office (within a mini-supermarket) in the middle of the Cassiobury Estate. Many elderly people collect their pensions from this one and large numbers of people use it to post just about anything that is too big to put in a post box. If it were to close then all these people would have to travel to the next nearest one and either find somewhere to park or else hang around waiting for a bus. For elderly people this can be quite exhausting, for others it would mean yet more traffic on the roads. Hardly a green option.
In outlying districts what about a travelling post office? -
hi john - a travelling post office that sounds like a good idea to me.
I wonder what the council would make of that suggestion? And you're right, if residents near you are forced to travel (by car) miles to the next PO this kind of goes against the government's environmental agenda.
Anyone else got any thoughts or know of this type of approach being used in any other places?
MD
