http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/03/post-offices-labour-says-one-thing-does.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/03/post-offices-labour-says-one-thing-does.htm/comment-page-1#comment-965 dreamingspire Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:34:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1645#comment-965 Dizzy Thinks claims at<br/>http://dizzythinks.net/2008/03/saving-our-post-offices.html<br/>that the closures are the result of competition law. In that case we should nationalise them again rather than run them as a govt owned company. Instead we have Local Authorities trying to turn them into multi-service centres, and this week I heard two reports the the PO is being order to negotiate with those LAs.<br/>From information gleaned in my area, it seems that not only are unprofitable Post Offices going to be closed (and the failure of the Commons vote to stop them strengthens that belief) but so also are profitable ones, on the premise that having their customers go to the next Post Office will increase its profits.<br/>If there isn't a convenient bus service for customers of a PO that is to be closed to get to another PO, that is apparently also a reason to object to the closure - but the incompetents in the PO should have assessed that out for themselves. I have had supply-side encounters with the PO from time to time and their management has never impressed me. Dizzy Thinks claims at
http://dizzythinks.net/2008/03/saving-our-post-offices.html
that the closures are the result of competition law. In that case we should nationalise them again rather than run them as a govt owned company. Instead we have Local Authorities trying to turn them into multi-service centres, and this week I heard two reports the the PO is being order to negotiate with those LAs.
From information gleaned in my area, it seems that not only are unprofitable Post Offices going to be closed (and the failure of the Commons vote to stop them strengthens that belief) but so also are profitable ones, on the premise that having their customers go to the next Post Office will increase its profits.
If there isn’t a convenient bus service for customers of a PO that is to be closed to get to another PO, that is apparently also a reason to object to the closure – but the incompetents in the PO should have assessed that out for themselves. I have had supply-side encounters with the PO from time to time and their management has never impressed me.

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