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I'm just wondering where people should collect their pension
2006-12-09 02:42:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
no they should stay open
2006-12-09 02:45:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Closing of Post Offices - Hospitals - Many Social Services - - Politically Correct Idiots , Town Hall Bullies Dictating how we Live our Lives, Astronomical Gas . Electric , Oil and Petrol Prices - Stealth Taxes on a Daily Basis a Government which Hates The Indigenous Population Has turned Against and is Ruining Our Country -- Tony Blair -- New Labour --- ROTTEN TO THE CORE
2006-12-10 07:44:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sooner or later, someone like DHL will see the opportunity and start to collect mail from small shops. Soon, they will develop other services and pay the shopkeeper on a commission basis - meaning no fixed wage bill for DHL. People will use these services and DHL will make yet another fortune at the expense of Royal Mail and end up owning the postal network. Yes, they will. The people responsible for closing the Post Offices will, by then, have been made redundant with £100,000+ payoffs and have jobs with DHL. Good, eh?
2006-12-09 15:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just logged in and saw this question, i defo do not think that p.o. around the country should be closing, what about the poor buggars that work there like me!
my lovely regular pensioners, love the once weekly trip to the p.o. I always spend time with them and have a good chat, for some people, we are the only faces that they see in a week..seriously. a lot cant walk very far.. they get there pension then pay a few bills maybe get a few b'day or get well cards, all at one shop. no walking from one shop to another or two bus trips etc. the government have not looked at the whole picture.
but i will tell you all something... all you people out there that do buisiness online for example car tax or even printing your own stamps... you have a lot to answer for as well
USE IT OR LOOSE IT!!!
2006-12-09 11:06:01 · answer #4 · answered by yvonne w 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I do not agree. At the rate the PO are going there will be no PO's left. The queues that will arise over so many closures are not something to think about with everyone crowding to the only ones left and it leaves it wide open for anyone wanting to rob old folk after collecting pensions, with a great choice.
2006-12-09 10:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by SYJ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I may be being cynical but probably the goverment are trying to trim the postal outlets down to make it more viable for privatisation in the future. I think PO's are a public service and should be preserved. Did'nt they do the same with rural bus routes just before deregulation? It's the way of New Labour steath theft, undermining services then saying gosh look at the state of that lets reform it.
2006-12-09 10:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! Post offices are an important part of most communities.
They are also less discriminatory than other providers of similar services as the post office can be used by anyone regardless of age, intellect, income etc.
Keep Post Offices open, fire some of the fat cat idiots "managing" the post office and save hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
2006-12-10 11:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by wilke_alex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO I don't! the poor are being penalised yet again! This government has forced the poor to be paid benefits/pensions to their bank accounts where the banks rob them of the money with their charges and this next phase is the straw that will break the camels back
2006-12-09 10:46:18 · answer #8 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i had a nearby post office that closed, now i have to travel, that costs me in bus fares just to get there when i do the queue is to the door, i hate having to go the post office now stamps are like gold in our house,i am also disabled with arthritis so somedays its hard to travel, having a car would not be any better because i would then have parking fees, just to get to a post office, if the post office cant provide the service, i wish that someone else would, i certainly would use then if the choice was there.
2006-12-09 11:09:52 · answer #9 · answered by batty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not only pensioners that are being attacked by these closures, it's the unemployed and everyone else on benefits. Not everyone can shop online or use a credit card.
IT'S AN ATTACK ON THE POOR BY THE RICH!
2006-12-10 05:05:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many pensioners have been encouraged to have their pensions paid into their bank accounts. I think more & more people will be doing it like that & using cheques to pay their bills.
2006-12-09 10:59:38 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋