Telford & Wrekin Council Watch - Stop The Post Office Closures

Stop The Post Office Closures

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Written by John Franklyn

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Telford Council Watch has created a Petition against the closure of Post Offices throughout the borough of Telford and Wrekin.

The Petition reads

We, the undersigned, support Telford Council Watch and their campaign to stop any further Post Office closures in Telford.

Post Offices are vital Community Resource.

Many people use their local post office on a very regular basis for things like

Paying Bills
Getting Stamps
Getting Car Tax
Posting Letters and Parcels

And see the great benefit that is received through Post office use by many community members of differing age groups.

For some people, the Post Office provides a Social venue were they meet others on a regular basis they could otherwise loose contact with.

The Post Office has gone beyond being a business but has become a valuable community resource playing a vital role in peoples lives.

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES FROM CLOSURE

This Petition Will Be Delivered to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown at
10 Downing street.

Sign It , Support it or lose it

To sign the Petition and support Post Offices in the Borough simply go to the following link

http://www...&pet=3&Itemid=35

or click on the

TCW PETITIONS - SIGN NOW

Go to Telford Council Watch and Support YOUR Post Office NOW.

www.telfordcouncilwatch.org.uk

Please save our post office.

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bilbo - Post offices

|Registered |2008-03-26 14:06:41

I have been looking at Telford Council Watch for a while now and I think it is a great site. However, I do think it's pretty biased against Labour - sometimes with reason and sometimes without.

I live in Dawley and our post office is well used. But not all of them are. If people don't use a service, then it dies. It is no good saying we must keep them open at all cost because that 'cost' is met by the taxpayer and not some mystery pot of money. If the Conservatives in Telford are serious about keeping the post offices open then why don't they commit to underwriting the losses made by small post offices locally. They won't do that because they know it would simply put the council tax up, but they are happy to pass the blame onto central Government and then blame them for high taxes.

I think this is just political opportunism and it saddens me!

ajcobbler - Usual hypocrisy

|SAdministrator |2008-04-04 11:39:48

The contributor from Dawley appears to think this site is biased against New Labour. Actually the site is no more biased against N.l. than any other party but it is N.l that has been in power about twenty -eight years in Telford and for ten years nationally. The so called party of the people has already closed hundreds of post offices and continues to do so while using evasion and cant.

Naturally the Dawley man is in support of his post office but wants others closed. Surely he is not another N.l. man like David Wright who is content to see closures but has started a petition on his own patch saying it is all the fault of the Tories that offices are closing.i

IT'S LIKE THE SCHOOL PLAYING FIELDS CON TRICK. WE KNOW THAT THE TORIES STARTED BUILDING ON THE FIELDS. N.L. GOT POWER SAYING IT WOULD STOP THIS AND THEN CLOSED EVEN MORE FIELDS. OR LIKE THE HOUSING FIASCO WHICH THE TORIES STARTED BUT N.L CARRIED FORWARD TO THE POINT OF PRIVITISING SOCIAL HOUSING TO THE DETRIMENT OF MILLIONS.OR LIKE THE MIGRATION ISSUE WHICH HAS BECOME WORSE UNDER N.L.

IF THERE IS SOME BIAS IN THOSE LIKE MYSELF IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE OLD LABOUR PEOPLE WHO FEEL UTTERLY BETRAYED BY THIS VILE PARTY.I NEVER EXPECTED ANYTHING FROM THE TORIES BUT NEW LABOUR HAS BETRAYED A LIFE TIME OF BELIEF IN POLITICS.

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