Save our post offices

Lead petitioner : Bob Chambers

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Status: Closed

Petition

We call upon the Council to follow the splendid example of Essex, and act to save our local post offices from closure. These are the places where people meet and chat, and they keep the local community spirit alive, more than any other shops. Many elderly and disabled people meet their neighbours there, and would find it difficult to reach other post offices. Local businesses, too, value them highly. Closing them strikes at the heart of local communities.

Background information

The Post Office is planning to close 29 small local post offices in the greater Bristol area, including 12 in the city itself. Faced with a similar proposal, Essex County Council plans to save the threatened post offices there by taking them over, and hopes to show that they can be run at a profit. (For details, go to the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7289939.stm). Bristol should do the same.

Signature Count

40