Congratulations to Oldham Council for helping to keep open five post offices in the town. Post offices are an integral part of village life and a vital service for those unable to travel to town. The government sheds crocodile tears and talks weasel words about efficiency while creating the conditions where smaller post offices can not compete.
Postage stamps can be bought by the public cheaper at stores such as COSTCO than the owners of post offices can buy them from the Royal Mail. The post office shop owners are debarred from buying stamps at these cheap prices. How then can they compete when they must pay more for stamps than their customers.
Road tax has been removed from many as have payment of water rates, television licences etc.
There seems to be a deliberate policy of destruction of this service.
The Oldham way of saving this service is not however necessary and is a costly way of doing it.
I believe post offices should have the monopoly of selling stamps and other postal services, and post offices in supermarkets and large town centre shops closed. This would at a stroke give back trade to the smaller shops at no cost and ensure their survival.
Of course the Labour Party and possibly the Tories are subsidized by big business, ie the supermarkets so they will be against this and cite EU regulations on competition.
This is another reason to be against the EU. Protecting a valued institution and the associated benefits to local life should not be sacrificed on the altar of greed, especially when the measures I propose would cost nothing.
Making people travel miles to a post office in a supermarket seems illogical when the government is supposedly trying to cut traffic congestion.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN , WE WANT TO KEEP OUR POST OFFICES and the BNP will make sure we do
