Until February last year we had a full time sub-post office in our village, then it was reduced to 5 half days a week . Then we were reduced to a Transit van mobile post office to be here 3 mornings a week in February this year. Today the PO has announced that due the cost of running the van (after only 3 weeks use in the winter!) this will now be withdrawn . The next nearest PO is 5 miles away and is only open 3 half days a week and it will be reduced to a van in April too (then closed as well?). What the f k is the PO doing? I now have to travel 16 miles into town, pay 40p for every 15minutes to NCP to park and add CO2 to the atmosphere when I used to be able to walk to the village PO.
I'm lucky, I have a car but many of the older people in the village cannot even get the 3 times daily bus into town as the inward and outward buses have a 5 hour wait between them! Is this really good customer relations?
What's worse is that Gordie Broon and his pals in the Edinburgh Parliament are supporting all these rural Port Office closures! They want us all to live in the toon so they can spy on us easily, but are doing it by stealth.
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One of many reasons, Tim, why the emigration figures are higher now than they've ever been before. This place is going to the dogs. I've considered leaving the country on the odd occasion, but it would be difficult for me to do at the moment. SuperT had the right idea  

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What is really annoying S is that the original post office wasn't even a stand-alone PO it was a corner in the village shop, not like it was costing a fortune to run! Of course with the loss of the PO now the future of the village shop is in jeopardy as well! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Indeed - all very sad  

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Agree, We are just waiting for them to do the same in our village. We have an elderly Post Mistress and we reckon as soon as she gives up that's the end of the post office in the village.

To be honest, If it was a choice between losing rural post offices or putting the cost of a stamp up 5p then I'd be happy to pay more for the stamp. 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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What amazes me is that the government is supporting these closures with £1.7 billion of funding to Royal Mail. Unbelievable.

Sussex loses its Post Offices this week (the one down the road from me goes tomorrow lunchtime).

If you go to www.postoffice.co.uk letters and parcels are not particularly obvious to find - the two services listed on the front page are mail holding and mail redirection. They're desperate to sell insurance and broadband

What they should do to increase revenue is have counters in supermarkets, where you can get a parcel or heavy letter or recorded delivery item weighed and posted after 5.30pm (doesn't matter that it goes the next day, just gone with the right postage on), so that those running sidelines on eBay, etc and working a full day can get stuff sent out without having to lose lunchtimes or get a friend/relation to do it for them.

And they need to become a proper flexible service - so if you have parcels to collect because you weren't in, then have the collection point open earlier than 9.30 and later than 2pm.

But no - this just won't happen because this country is becoming ever more pathetic - totally inflexible and out of touch with what people want and need. Like this site? Buy some RRSPORT goodies to show your support!

The Co-op supermarket in Thurso has the postoffice in it, there were even objections to that. Our local PO is now a Weatherspoons. The postoffice counter was sold off and is a small shop on the high street, the sorting office is now in a small building elsewhere. At one time all the villages around here had a branch now they are all gone. At least the Postoffice Bus still runs, taking passengers and mail to the outlaying villages. Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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I was told but the guy that owns the PO near my shop that the moneys not there any more so it's not worth his time for the money anymore think that one of the reason so many are going


Going on what Matin and Endjin said how mean of you would be happy to pay a bit more just to walk in to a late night PO? RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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Because the government now prefers to pay benefits by DD, you can get Car Tax on-line etc etc it has taken a huge source of income from the Post Office. The Post Office needs to look at how best to serve it's customers but they stick to the old rigid opening times. Why can't I have my postman pick up parcels from my house when he does his deliveries? 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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If it meant paying an extra 5p for a first class stamp, I'd be happy to pay it if it was going to allow local POs to stay open. But I agree, RoyalMail is struggling in a number of ways to keep up with the requirements of today's market. There are so many different services it could offer, but diversification needs to be more than just jumping on the financial services/broadband bandwagon. 

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Do any of you use the PO online stamp buying service? I never knew about it until I was visiting some friends who were busy printing out all the stamps for their business on their own printer and onto sheets of self adhesive labels
just like the local post office used to do!
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Not personally, but a colleague here swears by it.... 

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Living in the country we get one delivery per day anywhere between 10am and 12 noon, depends on which postman is driving the van. He will pick up any mail you have for posting as long as you have the correct postage on it. If you do miss a delivery here then you only have a 15minute window from the time he returns to the sorting office until it closes to collect it the same day.
In some ways the service is good and others it is c p esp. when you are waiting for an important letter ... still not arrived Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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