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Hands Off Our Post Offices



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Published Date:
09 July 2008
The ET launched its campaign in March 2008 as news of proposed closures across the region was confirmed.
Timeline of articles published online linked with the campaign:

18 September:
Closed post offices to be replaced by mobile vans
Mobile postal services operating from roadside laybys are to replace axed post offices in some villages near Peterborough.

17 September:
Video: Axe falls on all but one condemned post office
Joy as West Town saved but six others face axe.

15 August:
Post office closure petition delivered to 10 Downing Street
Petition with 2,000 signatures delivered to Downing Street by MPs Shailesh Vara and Stewart Jackson, leader of the city council John Peach and the ET's editor Mark Edwards.

12 August:
ET takes Post Office protest to Downing Street
The Hands off our Post Offices campaign, launched by the ET, has already attracted close to 2,000 signatures.

Great Gidding post office campaigners highlight travel problems.
Great Gidding residents cycle, ride a horse and run the 10 mile round-trip to Sawtry, the nearest branch to them if their branch closes, to demonstrate the loss the closure will have on their community.

Woodston protesters hit the streets.

14 July:
Threatened post office is 'community's heart'
Deena Howard, from Ramsey St Mary's post office, signed the petition in a bid to save her shop, which is at the "heart of the community", and received a visit from Shailesh Vara, MP for North West Cambridgeshire. Tara Dundon

10 July:
Chance to voice your post office concerns
PUT pen to paper and make your concern count.

9 July:
Post Office planning to soften blow of closures
Officials claim the closure of city branches in Woodston, New England and West Town will leave customers no more than a mile away from their nearest alternative branch.

Your comments: Regular users shocked their branch may be shut

List of under-threat post offices in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire
Post Office Ltd announces that 26 branches in Cambridgeshire are to be closed, including Holme, Great Gidding, Ramsey St Mary, St Peter's Road, March, West Town and Woodston.

8 July:
Revealed: City post offices facing the axe - now have your say
A seven-week consultation began today on cost-cutting plans to shut post offices in Peterborough along with 23 others across Cambridgeshire.

2 May:
Under threat post office is 'cornerstone of village'
Great Gidding post office, near Sawtry, is one of dozens of branches facing an uncertain future, Shailesh Vara visited sub-postmaster Jed Patel to offer his support.

10 April:
Date for closure fails to deter protesters
The branch at Barnwell, near Oundle, was earmarked for closure in January this year, and residents have been told it will close in October.

7 April:
MP delivers message of support
North West Cambridgeshire MP Shailesh Vara visited the village post office in Farcet, near Peterborough, one of the dozens of branches facing an uncertain future in the city area.

2 April:
Petition to back ET Post Office campaign
Closing post offices in the region would have a devastating impact on the city's pensioners – a watchdog report has confirmed.

31 March:
Staff speak up for post offices
Angela Hurcombe, whose post office in King's Cliffe was saved in an earlier round of cuts, has pledged her support for other branches facing uncertainty.

28 March:
Hands Off Our Post Office campaign launched by The Evening Telegraph after Government announces 250 branches to be closed in the East of England, including up to 30 in Cambridgeshire.

The full article contains 590 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
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  • Last Updated: 18 September 2008 9:19 AM
  • Source: Peterborough ET
  • Location: Peterborough
 
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YvetteW,

Peterborough 06/08/2008 11:21:39
Support our Post Offices? Not after the treatment I received in the New England Post Office this morning! As a childminder, I had popped in to the post office to withdraw some cash with the children that I look after. (One in a pushchair and 6 others). The children were well behaved and quiet - not running amok. However the lady behind the till in the shop passed a derogatory comment to another customer in the shop about us and made me feel deeply unwelcome, and then also went over to watch what the children were doing. (No doubt expecting them to steal something). I felt like a common criminal, when all I had done was to use my local Post Office and show my support!! When I actually got to the counter my card was declined, when I tried to explain to the gentleman behind the counter that this had happened in another Post Office before and that my card was working perfectly well elsewhere, he was extremely dissmissive and would not entertain my thoughts that there might be a problem with the card reader. (My card worked perfectly well in the shop next door 3 minutes later). Overall, I was made to feel like a common criminal in this shop, and when, on ringing to complain when I got home, the Postmaster was again very dissmissive and didn't apologise once!
If this is the kind of service a 'friendly' local Post office can offer us, I say no thanks.
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