Save Our Post Offices
The row over post office closures rumbles on with many rural offices identified for closure in spite of loud local protests.
Not so long ago, the Neville’ Cross County Division had two, one on Neville’s Cross Bank and the other on Fieldhouse Lane. Both are now closed leaving us as one of the only county divisions in the whole of County Durham without a post office.
In fact I suspect we are the only such division, although we won’t be for long as things stand.
At Cabinet on Thursday, there was a small detail on one report about the closures in the south of the County, with a recommendation to look at ways of using County Council facilities to fill the gap.
This sees to be an approach that lots of councils around the UK are now looking at and I welcome it and hope that the Post Office as an organisation will co-operate.
Another small note in the press on the subject - our Labour MP, Roberta Blackman-Woods, voted against a motion in parliament condemning post office closures, so I guess we can assume she doesn’t mind them happening.
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