Villagers go to town in post office protest

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 9, 2008 ;   LAURA DALE;   579 words ......protesters descended on Newton Abbot Post Office to demonstrate how difficult life will...potential problems if their village post office closes down. They made the two and a...Cost Cutters in Queen Street, where the post office is located. Protest organiser Liz Taylor...

Stamp down on post office closure

Bristol Evening Post;  August 9, 2004 ;     325 words ...Campaigners were planning to protest today outside a post office earmarked for closure. More than 500 people have signed petitions calling for Post Office Ltd to drop its plans to shut the post office in Filton Avenue, Horfield. Bristol city councillor...

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

The Independent - London;  June 25, 1994 ;   NEIL LYNDON;   787 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...

How to make a success of running a local post office: post offices are an...

Grocer;  April 19, 2008 ;     570 words ......Holborn Owner, Holborns We took over the post office in our village in 2006 after the original...money to make space for it. Having a post office is important to a c-store like ours...shop's place in the community. If the post office had gone, people would have had to go...

Fighting the new wreckers&; Pictures: RICHARD LAPPAS ANGER: Peter Allen is...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 31, 2008 ;     784 words ......STEPHEN WOMACK THE current wave of post office closures has sparked anger and protest...classic example of how the value of a post office cannot be calculated solely in pounds...who is leading the fight to keep the post office open, says: 'Altarnun is ranked as one...

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...

Steps should be taken now to safeguard post office network.(Business)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 14, 2007 ;     622 words ...Byline: By Russell Lawson The post office network is extensive. There are 8,000...many other outlets. Most recently, the Post Office lost the contract to supply TV licences...policies has meant that since 1997, 6,000 post office branches have closed. This equates to...

Still time to join fight for village post office

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  September 11, 2008 ;     384 words ...The case for keeping a post office in Abbotskerswell has taken steps...There were two representatives from Post Office Ltd, one from Postwatch, parish...the importance of writing to the Post Office to help to save it from closure...

POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS HAVE LOST THEIR BATTLE; 10,000-name petition fails...

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 29, 2003 ;     416 words ...Byline: Mark Stead THE Post Office has been accused of ignoring its...from people who use Albany Road Post Office - including a petition signed by...will lose its status as a Crown post office when Vias Sharma, trading as DVS...

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 ;   JENNY PERCIVAL Political Correspondent;   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...

Retirement means uphill battle to save post office ; There has been a post...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 11, 2008 ;     644 words ...There has been a post office in the sprawling Townstal residential...elderly residents stranded - the nearest post office being at the bottom of a steep hill. Opponents of the closure want Post Office Ltd to reconsider its position and have...

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

Derby Evening Telegraph;  October 4, 2007 ;     787 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...