POST OFFICE CLOSURES:YOUR THOUGHTS.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 11 Nov 2007, 22:38

See Teebs list in the thread above!!

Post by **plodsie** » 12 Nov 2007, 22:27

I scrolled through all those POs and could not help thinking what the hell is going on? "The People's Post Office" should become "The People's Post Office if we let you have one." This isn't just the closure of post offices, but the closure of communities and the end of a British Institution. To those who proposed all this, they probably thought it was as easy as putting a hot knife through butter. But the knife has went through the heart of the Country.
The fact that our Government sits by, and watches it all is akin to someone watching a car crash, and standing by while those inside die. Of course, a few MPs are up in arms at this, but they were nowhere to be seen when all this was first announced.

"First we kick up the dust, then complain that we cannot see."

Sadly, the "people's post office" does not actually belong to the people anymore, but heartless businessmen.

Post by **BMC** » 11 Mar 2008, 14:57

RM are only interested in Â£Â£`s.

RM will close every post office counter down in the land except crown offices and these will be reduced to only one crown office per major town or city.

MARK MY WORDS!!!

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 11 Mar 2008, 14:59

Anyone who wants to get documents about the closures and access report etc for their area can get them from

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/c ... d=57600697

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 11 Mar 2008, 15:02

I thought they wanted to start using the callers office as POs. Anyway NI lost a load of sub offices 3/4 years ago (in my area we only have 6 left out of 10).

pinstripe · Post by **pinstripe** » 11 Mar 2008, 16:06

These are just another indication of the business plan. RM/Post Office are no longer a national public service, but are a business and as such are subject to the usual business rules. If they can make the same amount of profit with 1 office than they can with 100 then 99 will close. The government is to blame. We are owned by the state and run for the state (well, until now) and it is the governments agenda that we are privatised. This Tory government is only following the proven methods of pre-privatisation used by the Thatcher government, and as we have seen, she is Gordon Brown's hero. The fact that communities are dying is irrelevant to them, as has been said on other threads, they are only interested in Â£'s. Big business rules and the little man can just get to ****.

apple · Post by **apple** » 11 Mar 2008, 19:20

i really love the CONSULTATION, when have RM ever listened?
Had the guy on local TV that is handling it in our area, was asked if they appeal and get a PO closure stopped, what happens do you simply close others? this guy goes yes! so you can have your victory but we have a quota to shut and were going to do it, makes a mockery of the consultation and RMs formula for closures
but as we all have dealt with RM management and there decisions [pensions consultations] nobody should be surprised only the people that haven't had to deal with the incompetent buggers

when are they going to shut them in parliament then? 3 in a 100m radius i believe

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 12 Mar 2008, 15:17

Rumour is that Websters and Collins will be putting the next definition into their new dictionaries.

Arrogant

arÂ·roÂ·gant (r-gnt)
adj.
1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. As in Royal Mail Consultation process, marked by an an express lack of consultation.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. See Synonyms at proud.

[Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French, from Latin arrogns, arrogant-, present participle of arrogre, to arrogate; see arrogate.]
arroÂ·gantÂ·ly adv.