IS Gordon Brown now preparing to close a further 3,000 Post Office branches in addition to the 2,500 closures already underway?
That would be the result of choosing not to award the contract for the new Card Account to the Post Office.
Out of 24 million visits to Post Offices each week, 6.5 million are made by card account users and this is responsible for around 12% of Su
b-postmaster's income.
Such as reduction would threaten the viability of the 11,500 Post Offices expected to remain open once the current round of closures has been completed.
With the Post Office network of such importance to so many people as demonstrated by usage figures, we must question both the logic and motives of a Government which seems hell-bent on finding ever more ingenious ways of making it unprofitable.
TV licensing is taken away, then motorists are encouraged to renew Road Tax online and now millions of pensioners face a longer journey to a bank to use the card account now available at their local Post Office.
Labour representatives in Sheffield should now tell us why these plans were concealed during the recent local election campaign and whether they agree that their Government should seek to deprive residents of yet more of the dwindling services they currently enjoy?
Spencer Pitfield, Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Penistone and Stocksbridge
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