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Article: Royal Mail can afford to keep post office open say protesters
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- November 17, 2008
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MSP makes claim after meeting to save the Oxgangs branch
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Oxgangs Post Office claim a pledge
from Royal Mail bosses shows there is no need for the branch to
shut.
The post office in Oxgangs Broadway was put forward for closure
last month to replace two other city post offices which were taken
off the hit list.
But Royal Mail says if the current consultation ends with Oxgangs
being saved, no other branch will be put up for closure in its
place.
And SNP Lothians MSP Ian McKee said that means there is no need
for Oxgangs to close at all.
He said: "We have had an assurance from the Post Office that if
the appeal is successful and Oxgangs Broadway is spared, they ...