LTB 728/12 Post Office Mutualisation

[demoralisedofessex]

There was an attempt to piss off the public who use Post Offices by making the experience as unpleasant as possible. There was an experiment in subjecting customers to long queues and hard selling. Gladly, this has now been abandoned.

Really? When?

LMAO!

[LinChong]

Get one thing straight. The public love the Post Office and they don't want theirs closed. The only chance the Condems and Labour have got of getting rid of the cost of the Post Office is if they can make the public fall out of love with the Post Office.

The truth is that even at maximum efficiency, the Post Office will still need a subsidy. Any new revenue that can be brought in is a good thing but cost cutting must not be done at the expense of service. This level of service is why the wages are higher than the minimum in the private sector.

If the Post Office is mutualised, the argument will be put forward to bring wages down to the private sector level and the Board will be obliged to obey because the charter will be fixed that way.

While the Post Office is loved there is no danger of closures so why have those at the top bought the line that the Post Office has to be self sufficient or else?

Or else what?

Some of the top CWU put Labour Party interests before CWU members' interest. For example, the (NEC picked) CWU Youth Committee don't do anything related to Industrial Relations, they are just trained to be politicians. We pay for their and their groomers yearly junkets to Russia, Venezuela etc. We should send them to Afghanistan along with all the other useless officers and committees.

[The BFO]

The public love the Post Office and they don't want theirs closed.

I am not at all sure about that. Of course everybody says they want a Post Office - but how often do they use our services, and how much are they prepared to pay for them? It is, I would suggest, a very shallow 'love'.

I am increasingly amused by my daughters generation, (early twenties) who have no use at all for Post Offices, and on the very rare occasion when they have to post something show the same level of confusion as I do when faced with one of these new fangled portable telephones.

[LinChong]

This article from 2008 contradicts your "shallow love" argument. If the love was that shallow people wouldn't bother to petition their MPs.

"Post office managers are receiving more than 2,500 letters and petitions a week from customers angry at Government closure plans, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

However, the complaints seem to be falling on deaf ears with just three per cent of the 700 post offices earmarked for closure having been saved.

Ministers announced 14 months ago plans to cut 2,500 branches from the network despite a campaign backed by more than 40,000 readers and a petition organised by the National Association of Sub Postmasters, which drew more than two million signatures.

Figures from the Post Office show the scale of complaints about closures remains as strong as ever. The level of complaints almost certainly underestimates the scale of opposition because Post Office managers count each letter and petition as one submission, regardless of the number of signatories.

Turning post offices into mini-banks will not happen until after election, Government admits 02 Dec 2009
At the current rate, they will have received more than 160,000 letters or petitions by the time the closure programme has finished.

So far, 24 closure applications have been withdrawn with 671 approved.
Alan Duncan, the shadow business secretary, said: "The strength of local feeling on this is unlike anything else I have experienced in the last decade as an MP. Postmasters feel like they are being swindled out of their livelihoods and vulnerable customers feel like they're being deserted.

"The Government has shown no understanding and little sympathy for the millions of people affected by these cuts."

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Mutualisation must be stopped.

[why?]

--------LinChong A.K.A. Minister Of Cucumber

[LinChong]

人同此心, 心同此理.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

人同此心, 心同此理.

That's a sweeping statement

[LinChong]

We all have things in common.