SAVE OUR POST OFFICES
Liberal Democrats have revealed shocking plans from the Labour Government to close local post offices.
The Government has announced that another 2,500 post offices are to close in a devastating blow that could mean that another six Post Offices are set to be closed in Bury alone. This is in addition to the 19 post offices that have already closed in Bury since 1999 under the Labour Government. What’s more - the Lib Dem’s have revealed that the Government and Post Office are deliberately putting back the closures until after the council elections in May 2008! (see letter from the Post Office below). Lib Dem councillors led the defence of our local post offices when they got Bury Council to agree a policy in favour of saving our post offices late last year.
Local Lib Dem campaigner Mary D’Albert said: “Post Offices are at the heart of our local community and provide many vital services. In recent years we’ve lost two post offices in Prestwich (on Whittaker Lane and on Bury Old Road near Danesway in Sedgley).”
Local Lib Dems demand:
• Halt the Post Office branch closure programme;
• Stop removing Government business from Post Offices;
• Find additional Government functions that could be carried out through Post Offices.
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