Tag: Post offices

What do we do about postal services?

jkitleft Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 12:26:48 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

It has been used by both the Tories and Lib Dems as a stick to beat us with on the local level. Many are concerned with post office closures. So what do we do with Royal Mail?

Would privatisation help the service? Or is there a way of liberating Royal Mail from government control through alternative means (I'm thinking on some sort of co-operative model)? Are there any examples from other countries where the latter has been achieved?

Your thoughts...






Coalition of the willing

Mark Wadsworth Thu May 22, 2008 at 10:21:56 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Let's look at a list* of some of the main things have been made illegal (or might be made illegal) for no good reason (whether such a ban is actually enforced or not in practice is by-the-by) and the two most stupid traffic regulations:



Post Office closures - how bad electorally?

rwendland Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 07:57:28 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

My local, very busy, city suburb sub Post Office is down for closure as part of the Post Office "Network Change Programme". Already the anti-closure petition has been signed by 750, probably more people than usually vote in local elections in the post-office's locality. The LibDems are making the most of this. Surely electorally this is a bad news nationally?



Going postal..

HOWLERMONKEY Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 06:42:33 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

On the 2nd December four men raided my local post office, and attempted to steal the contents of the safe. Knowing the poverty of the village at this would have been about £3.20 and half-a-dozen stamps. Fortunately no one was hurt and raid itself was unsuccessful, although the robbers got away. But it did bring to local media prominence another problem that rural post offices face.