They think we are fools... Stunned: Anne Charles at Golf Road post office...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......clock is ticking for the first wave of post office closures, with215 branches given until...areas to be hit, todiscover that the Post Office is not playing fair. MALTBY LE MARSH POST OFFICE 12 miles southeast of Louth THERE is...

Country Matters: Post office? It's next to the potatoes

The Independent - London;  June 25, 1994 ;     700+ words ...THE post office in our Suffolk village shop is open...Street has been closed. The biggest post office in the main market town serving a couple...Ipswich, our county town, where the main post office, a Corinthian horror described by Pevsner...

Bungling bosses wipe a big town off their map; ENGLAND'S 50th LARGEST...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 28, 2004 ;     471 words ...Byline: JO THORNHILL The Post Office, still reeling from outrage over a wave...widespread branch network. And a bungle by Post Office bosses that led to the closure of the largest post office in Romford, Essex, last week, has done nothing...

End of an era as post office shuts.(News)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  July 4, 2008 ;     246 words ......customers from the post office counter in his Roman Road premises. But he...closure of the post office is the end of an...are furious the post office is closing. It...campaign to keep the post office open and was among...

Post Office Rescued By Letters; Dayton Residents Wrote and Petitioned

The Washington Post;  April 15, 1993 ;     700+ words ......celebrating the survival of its one-room post office, a tiny white building on Ten Oaks Road...Carol Grant, who lives next door to the post office and goes there daily to pick up mail...signing campaign to save the Dayton post office had paid off. Bartlett, the freshman...

Honours For Top Post Office(R) Branches.

PR Newswire Europe;  October 24, 2005 ;     622 words ...LONDON, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Post Office(R) branches have beaten stiff competition...the country. The prize for best sub Post Office(R) went to West Monkseaton branch near...took the title of best directly managed Post Office(R) branch. The judges were particularly...

'We'll pay pounds75,000 to keep post office open'

Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  May 14, 2008 ;     473 words ...A LAST-ditch bid to save Uplands Post Office has been launched by Stroud Town Council...000 on the table' as a challenge to Post Office Ltd to keep the Uplands branch open...consider running a rival 'community post office' at Uplands Post Office, Springfield...

Shop owner's bid to buy post office

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  August 7, 2008 ;     546 words ......Abbotskerswell's closure-threatened post office. Lynn Howard, owner of Model Stores, is backing the village campaign to save the post office from being closed down. She says if...the community. Villagers are outraged Post Office Ltd has formally started consultation...

What post office needs is organized customersBeen to the post office

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  January 13, 1997 ;     589 words ...What post office needs is organized customers Been to the post office lately? That's Uncle Sam's admirable apothecary...has thought of "wanted poster wallpaper" yet. The post office has those nice machines in the lobby that sell stamps...

They wouldn't let me take post office; SHOPKEEPER SAYS BOSSES ARE NOT...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  September 22, 2003 ;     392 words ......JAMES McCARTHY A SHOPKEEPER has said Post Office bosses would not let him take over a...when he offered to take over Moseley post office in Coundon earlier this year, he he...was earmarked for closure. However the Post Office only announced this month it was set...

Post Office gets 1bn pounds for 'fresh start'

The Scotsman;  December 8, 1998 ;     567 words ...THE Post Office will have an extra GBP 1 billion to...series of measures designed to give the Post Office a "fresh start". The immediate effect...per cent reduction in the money the Post Office gives to the Treasury for the 1999...

Post office closure to 'rip out the heart' of village As news of wholesale...

Derby Evening Telegraph;  October 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ...As news of wholesale post office closures across Derbyshire hit home...Egginton fear that the closure of their post office will mean "the death of village...is part of nationwide cuts by the Post Office. Their protest comes during the...

Villagers put their case for post office

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 6, 2008 ;     592 words ......public meeting to discuss the fate of their post office. Last month Post Office Ltd formally started consultation into proposals...Thursday residents voiced their concerns to Post Office representatives, MP Richard Younger-Ross and...

What the post office should have done ; I am saddened at the lack of...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 29, 2008 ;     434 words ......imagination shown in dealing with the post office closures programme. An opportunity...being missed - primarily by the Post Office itself. The decline in the number...needed. Who decided that if the Post Office formula was not sustainable, no...

From carrots to currencies A thriving farm shop now sells stamps and even...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  November 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: TOBY WALNE THE local Post Office is at the heart of community life. When a branch...week to gauge how communities are coping. ASSINGTON POST OFFICE, SUFFOLK ASSINGTON POST OFFICE, SUFFOLK THERE is certainly no sign of the death...