Article: Post office rescue plans would be full of pitfalls ; Post Office boss Alan Cook has warned councils will find it costly to keep open branches earmarked for the axe.

Article: AND WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO RUN AND USE OUR POST OFFICES EVERY DAY THINK OF THE GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO TURN THEM INTO BANKS; SAVE OUR POST OFFICE.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  June 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......to save our post offices' POST office staff and customers...closures of many post offices, especially...the community post office, although they...Binley Woods Post Office, said: In our...off than other post offices but it still...

Article: Accounts change poses new threat to the post office ; More post offices could close in Exeter and across Devon if, as expected, the Government gives the vital Post Office Card Account to another operator.
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  October 23, 2008 ;     461 words ...More post offices could close...gives the vital Post Office Card Account...replace the Post Office. Exeter post offices are convinced...sustainability of the post office network and...around 3,000 post offices." The National...

Article: Unanimous support to save post offices ; Senior councillors have met with North Lincolnshire MPs to discuss how best to oppose post office closures.
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  November 6, 2007 ;     412 words ......best to oppose post office closures. Councillors...representations to Post Office Ltd opposing all...and East Ashby post offices. He said: "Post...services from post offices to outreach centres...to approach the Post Office about that. "I...who want ...

Article: Minister defends post office closures ; The Government has defended its decision to close thousands of post offices, including hundreds in the Westcountry, in a bid to streamline the service and cut the network's pounds500,000 daily losses.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 13, 2008 ;     567 words ......close thousands of post offices, including hundreds...losses. Business and post offices minister Pat McFadden...necessary to make the post office network more sustainable...country's 14,000 post offices to make the service...customers away from post ...

Article: How to make a success of running a local post office: post offices are an important part of communities across the UK but to run them well retailers need to make sure they offer new products and services and be prepared to invest some money.(Retail Surgery)
Grocer;  April 19, 2008 ;     570 words ......Holborns We took over the post office in our village in...space for it. Having a post office is important to a c-s...community. If the post office had gone, people would...doing it. To make a post office work retailers have...confidence in it. What Post ...

Article: 'Threat to our post offices' ; The head of a Cleethorpes post office has expressed concern at potentially devastating decisions, which could affect every pensioner.
Grimsby Telegraph;  June 14, 2008 ;     353 words ......Sandringham Road post office, said the possibility...threat to all post offices". The Post Office Card Account is...allowance through the post office use the card to...many as 3,000 post offices could shut if...threat to all post offices." ...

Article: Readers supporting post office petition Strong support has been lent to the Scunthorpe Telegraph's Save Our Post Offices campaign.
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  October 16, 2007 ;     399 words ......Telegraph's Save Our Post Offices campaign. The petition...help try to stop the post office closures threatening...added their support. Six post offices are currently being...for the Newport Street Post Office apart from closure...could to keep Eastoft post ...

Article: Devon facing above average post office cuts ; The number of post offices under the axe in Devon is above average compared to other counties, a leading councillor has claimed.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 31, 2008 ;     481 words ......around six of the post offices earmarked for closure...Nationally, the Post Office has unveiled 2...facilities such as post offices. They have systematically...to destroy the post office for some years...enough for the Post Office to say 'if we save...that ...

Article: Post office initiative may stop the rot; As an emergency package is prepared to stave off the closure of post offices, Chief Feature Writer Ros Dodd asks whether their future is still in doubt.
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......hundreds of post offices across the...to help the Post Office meet new...Jubilee Crescent post office in Coventry...Sub-Postmasters, says post offices want business...save these post offices. 'If by making the Post Office a bank, we...

Article: Have a say on service at your nearest post office ; Plans to breathe new life into post offices are to be drawn up by a major Parliamentary inquiry into how to protect the network in the future.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 12, 2008 ;     520 words ......told how important post offices are - we know that...themselves 'I wish the post office did X', here's...to happen in the post office are the people...move away from the Post Office. Many Westcountry...the future. The post office network currently...

Article: New post office helps village to buck trend; MORE SUPPORT POURS IN FOR EVENING TELEGRAPH CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SUB- POST OFFICES.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  March 17, 2000 ;     226 words ......postmistress is backing our campaign to safeguard post offices. Margaret Willan's post office opened for business in Baginton yesterday and...which could lead to the closure of scores of post offices. Whitehall want to pay pensions and other benefits...

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.
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  October 2, 2007 ;     293 words ......decisions on which post offices will close will be made by Post Office Ltd, in the light...consultations. He said: "Post offices continue to play...are using the post office each week than...smallest rural post offices at a cost of pounds17...change' in ...

Article: SAVE OUR POST OFFICE: We have heard and we will act; AND WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO RUN AND USE OUR POST OFFICES EVERY DAY THINK OF THE GOVERNMENT'S PLAN.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  June 29, 2000 ;     378 words ...POST office staff and customers...the move to make post offices into financial...areas. Village post offices stand to gain the...of Hampton Magna Post Office, in Hampton Magna...run the Foleshill Post Office in Coventry for...which makes so many post ...

Article: Blaming the EU will not save post offices ; Or months now the UK Independence Party has been muddying the waters of the post office closure row. It has been exploiting people's genuine concerns for its own narrow political gain and in so doing makes it more difficult for people to make a potent case for keeping their local post office open.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ......waters of the post office closure row...keeping their local post office open. The backlash...to keep their post offices open. To be successful...ice at all with Post Office Ltd, which will...to close local post offices. Indeed...Government subsidising ...