The criterion appears to be that if you live within one mile of a post office, then so well and good.

That's fair enough if you are young and able bodied, but as the population is growing older and more frail, this distance is too far, as would be the distance to the nearest bank.

The solution is simple – get rid of a number of the expensive and parasitic Government quangoes and plough the millions saved into support for a vital local service such as the post offices under threat of closure.
R Maywood,
Alexandra Road,
Peterborough

Closure will hit pensioners
IN reference to the proposed closure of New England Post Office.

This news is so disappointing. Do the powers that be not realise New England has the largest population of pensioners in the city? It also has a high percentage of disabled people. How are they supposed to get to the nearest post office?

Not everyone has a car. New England Post Office has been a meeting place in this area for decades.

It's a community meeting point, with friendly staff and quite a range of goods on sale.

Gladstone Street will be too far for many people to travel, as will Exeter Road.

I suggest a rethink, or one of the local supermarkets or pubs have a post office counter – the need is there. We want to see somebody with a bit of initiative make it happen.
CHRIS HALLS
St Pauls Road,
New England,
Peterborough

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Anger over bus pass rejections
for blind/partially sighted people
I wonder if any of your readers have had nasty experience of bus drivers rejecting the bus passes for blind/partially sighted people.

These passes have a clock logo on them, suggesting the person carrying it can travel free any time of the day on buses in Peterborough. It has happened to me three times since May.

The drivers refused to accept the pass before 9.30am either because he has not been made aware of this or he simply refuses to accept the explanation.

Last time it happened to me was on Friday, June 27, when I got on Bus 37 from Eastfield Road.

Eventually I had to get off the bus and get another bus.

Every time I have complained to the managers, I am reassured it won't happen again, as the drivers will be informed. However, for a while it is OK, then it happens again.

I suggest that the bus passes display an "eye" logo rather than clock for blind/partially sighted people.

The incidents have been embarrassing and demeaning. Can the appropriate people please take notice and stop this happening again to disabled people.
P Bryant
Via e-mail