post offices - northampton campaign
WORKERS, JUNE 2003 ISSUE
A campaign by Northampton Public Sector Alliance against the closure of a Post Office in Northampton has won wide support from local residents.
The closure is part of a nationwide plan to shut 3000 urban post offices (one in three) to recoup the current losses made by the Post Office.
The Post Office pledge that everyone will remain within a mile of a local post office cut no ice with users in Northampton, many of whom are pensioners and young mothers with children.
They know they will have a longer walk to the next nearest post office or the expense of a bus ride into town. These Post Offices are already stretched to deal with existing customers, so longer queues will be inevitable.