The Campaign Fails...
Here in the UK our Post Offices are under threat. Oh, the internet has played it's part with the increase in people using e-mail and instant messaging meaning that in many cases letters are no longer required and in many instances you can get a reply very quickly rather than waiting upto a week for a letter to drop through your letter box.
The same thing is true with phone calls, most people these days own a mobile so they text messages or just phone at the drop of a hat, often just to ask what to buy in the local supermarket. Hence it's been said that the traditional phone boxes(the iconic red ones)and some of the new are running at loss and there are plans a foot to close many down and take them off the street. What with running costs of repairing and cleaning them perhaps there is an excuse on business grounds.
Well, for all the campaign and backing from local council officials and our MP, a Post Office in our town will close. Leaving most business to be handled by one main branch in the town centre. It will be inconvenient to anyone that has mobility problems and little or no faamily or friends to ask for help to collect pensions or mail items on their behalf. It will cost money in bus fares and Taxi fares which if you are on a low income will bite into your savings and the money that you are collecting. As many of these Post Offices around the country being closed offered more than Post Office services...they were often shops as well. Selling the little things that can often keep people going especially if they suddenly run out of the basics like bread, milk or a can of beans...
Now on the other hand we are led to believe by information in the local freesheet that just maybe the town centre development that has been delayed/held up for some time could be starting to move. But it could take anywhere upto and beyond 5 years to complete.
Plans have been put on public display and it's said once the consultation with the public is over, the first action could start within weeks.
The basic design suggests knocking down some buildings and replacing them with new one's, many existing shops having the fronts taken off and replaced with new, some smaller units being knocked into larger units, some new retailers being tempted in.
They plan to open up the concourse and put in more seats, more trees(this assumes they can stop the vandalism that has happened elsewhere to trees that were planted)and that they will be maintained and cared for(others have been allowed to die off and I have never seen anyone water or feed them)they are often planted and then the roots covered with a kind of grate that doesn't really allow water to get into the surrounding soil. It also appears there will be the obligatory water feature.
It looks impressive but we'll see.
It was announced this week 37 Post Offices across the region will close
Town Plans
The same thing is true with phone calls, most people these days own a mobile so they text messages or just phone at the drop of a hat, often just to ask what to buy in the local supermarket. Hence it's been said that the traditional phone boxes(the iconic red ones)and some of the new are running at loss and there are plans a foot to close many down and take them off the street. What with running costs of repairing and cleaning them perhaps there is an excuse on business grounds.
Well, for all the campaign and backing from local council officials and our MP, a Post Office in our town will close. Leaving most business to be handled by one main branch in the town centre. It will be inconvenient to anyone that has mobility problems and little or no faamily or friends to ask for help to collect pensions or mail items on their behalf. It will cost money in bus fares and Taxi fares which if you are on a low income will bite into your savings and the money that you are collecting. As many of these Post Offices around the country being closed offered more than Post Office services...they were often shops as well. Selling the little things that can often keep people going especially if they suddenly run out of the basics like bread, milk or a can of beans...
Now on the other hand we are led to believe by information in the local freesheet that just maybe the town centre development that has been delayed/held up for some time could be starting to move. But it could take anywhere upto and beyond 5 years to complete.
Plans have been put on public display and it's said once the consultation with the public is over, the first action could start within weeks.
The basic design suggests knocking down some buildings and replacing them with new one's, many existing shops having the fronts taken off and replaced with new, some smaller units being knocked into larger units, some new retailers being tempted in.
They plan to open up the concourse and put in more seats, more trees(this assumes they can stop the vandalism that has happened elsewhere to trees that were planted)and that they will be maintained and cared for(others have been allowed to die off and I have never seen anyone water or feed them)they are often planted and then the roots covered with a kind of grate that doesn't really allow water to get into the surrounding soil. It also appears there will be the obligatory water feature.
It looks impressive but we'll see.
It was announced this week 37 Post Offices across the region will close
Town Plans
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 12:56 pm
1 Comments:
Gildy I think it's completely disgraceful that so many people are going to be inconvenienced like this.
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