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Article: Lack of customers sees losses rise to pounds4-million a week A Spokesman for the Department of Business and Enterprise said final decisions on which post offices will close will be made by Post Office Ltd, in the light of the responses to the area consultations.
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- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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A Spokesman for the Department of Business and Enterprise said
final decisions on which post offices will close will be made by Post
Office Ltd, in the light of the responses to the area consultations.
He said: "Post offices continue to play an important social and
economic role in the communities they serve, but four-million fewer
people are using the post office each week than two years ago, and
Post Office losses rose from pounds2-million a week in 2005 to
pounds4-million a week last year.
"On average, fewer than 16 people a week use the 800 smallest
rural post offices at a cost of pounds17 per visit to the taxpayer,
and 1,600 branches served fewer than 20 customers a day - losing ...