tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2249851329008146395.post6846021484022037776..comments2023-10-30T09:11:12.922-07:00Comments on Clouded Outlook: Labour loves the post officeAlice Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2249851329008146395.post-73863582560930315962009-06-12T13:37:45.931-07:002009-06-12T13:37:45.931-07:00Yeah, but Posts to Blogs - gazillions, Letters to ...Yeah, but Posts to Blogs - gazillions, Letters to newspapers - 1 I think in a lifetime. Snailmail has had its day. We cannot just keep every loss making thing, just because its an institution. There's a bill to be met.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2249851329008146395.post-22105843497169336302009-06-13T01:01:26.759-07:002009-06-13T01:01:26.759-07:00@Anon: Ebay parcels, online purchases? The interne...@Anon: Ebay parcels, online purchases? The internet is great but someone still has to physically deliver stuff. <br><br>The main reason for the recent decline is the EU, which won't let us subsidise the smaller Post Offices. Something our pro-EU politicians seem to omit telling us. Plus the govt has actively conived in the rundown of the network by sending the benefit/pension business eleswhere, and letting the BBC licence fee go to Paypoint. <br><br>Post Offices are great places - you can do so much through them. We should all use them, or the politicians will close the lot!sobersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2249851329008146395.post-10161071560252301302009-06-13T03:35:50.681-07:002009-06-13T03:35:50.681-07:00I like the door to door delivery service, but PO C...I like the door to door delivery service, but PO Counters is a grim 1960's experience. There are queues. There are "mum Mum Mum" weans. There are people who want to spend the day on some trivial bit of beaurocracy when you have a thousand things to do.<br><br>PO Counters is what is being closed. It loses money. You can get stamps at ASDA, or indeed print your own online. You can buy your Tax disc ( albeit HMG rips you an extra 2-50) online, pay your council tax, buy your Telly Tax ( or join a campaign against it and not buy it ). PO counters is as relevant today as are sailmakers to the Queens Navy.<br><br>Its sad, but its over. Actually so is the Queen's Navy, but thats another story....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2249851329008146395.post-71371413396852274642009-06-14T04:10:47.010-07:002009-06-14T04:10:47.010-07:00post offices can be a handy place for organisation...post offices can be a handy place for organisation of the national capital, the small peoples savings as in japan.<br>Here in Oz we used to have a government owned national bank formed to rein and provide competition to the private banks.its branches were in every P.O.<br>Thats all too much for "free enterprise" the bank is privatised<br>and last week bumped up its mortgage rates without any rise in the national reserve bank interest rate . "cost of capital " despite new government guarantees.<br>The post office is half privatised services to the people must make a profit or the P.O branch closes.<br>ozAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com