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Should we save the Post Office?
Newest Review: ... and pensions for example. There is a local village where I live. The PO is the only remaining outlet that has any humanity left attached to it. If it wasn't for the PO the place would be dead. Without the Post Office other business would suffer. The government has already shut down 4,500 offices and made many more unprofitable by moving key businesses such as the payment of TV licences and pensions to banks and the net. Every effort is being made to get customers to get all their bills paid by direct debit. Government benefits agencies such as job centre plus do everything they can to twist customers arms so as to get their benefits paid d... more |
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Should we save the Post Office?: Save Our PO (407 words)
by Zmugzy - written on 14.05.08 (Very useful, 190 readings)
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The Post Office is the centre of the community, creates a sense of identity and belonging. It also encourages sustainable living by providing services at a locality. Post Offices are not just about buying stamps, they give people access to cash, benefits and government services. Many outlets come combined with a shop or newsagents which makes them a social hub and meeting place for local residents. In both city and rural areas they are often the only place where you can get essential information about child benefits and pensions for example. There is a local village where I live. The PO is the only remaining outlet that has any humanity left attached to it. If it wasn't ...
What Choice Do Pensioners Have? (295 words)
by shewhoguards - written on 04.05.08 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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Our post office usually sees me once a year. Once a year I trot along to the place carrying roughly a hundred cards and 20 packages, explain patiently that yes, I really DO want surface mail rather than airmail because I'm poor and have friends with whom there is a running agreement that no-one will whine if gifts turn up late, and return home. But that, fond as I am of the yearly ritual, and of the subsequent emails a few days, a week, two months later telling me that what I sent arrived isn't why we should keep the post office. The post office remains the place where a lot of pensioners pick up their pension. "Ahhh!" you're going to say, ...
Should we save the Post Office?: The Post Office is the heart of the rural community (1223 words)
by whatanoldbag - written on 04.05.08 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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Having read Plipplop's empassioned argument against the Post Office I feel compelled to offer the case for the defence. A lot of the reasons given for closing post offices rely on the assumption that there are better and cheaper ways of meeting customers' needs, and that our attachment to the Post Office is emotional. That is a good point, and it may be true, but I still think there is a rational argument for maintaining post offices, especially in rural areas, such as in the village where I live. In thirty years' time, every septuagenarian pensioner will be using an ipod or what the equivalent will be by then, and be comfortable paying for car tax on line, ...
