This means some people have to travel about 10 miles to find one - I thought the Government was trying to cut out road travel! Have I missed the point somewhere?
2007-03-26 22:32:25 · 13 answers · asked by gloriamarley 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
the postal service should be banned of the internet. thats whats ruining the service, if people want to do everything by internet, it will just decrease human interaction and help devide the nation. you know governments are proffit mad, if non is being made they will close it.so help the post service and get out of the house and have a strole down to the post office you might meet a pal on the way. i saw one on t.v. they had turned it into a small cafe where folk could meet and have a chat. you dont have to be tide to the screen for every thing.
2007-03-27 01:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by trucker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government is doing this by stealth. My local post office (a few minutes' walk away) used to take TV licence payments and water bills. They don't any more, which means that to pay them I now have to go to a shop which is 2 1/2 miles away.
Inconvenient for me, but I am able-bodied and have no problems using public transport. What about people who because of health reasons cannot walk any distance and have difficulty using the bus?
I use my local post office nearly every day and so do many other people in the neighbourhood, but how much longer is it going to be there?
I'll support any campaign to keep local POs open. It will be another death blow to our communities if they close.
2007-03-27 15:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by squeaky guinea pig 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am sure that the Post Offices in rural areas that are profitable and essential will not be closed. Not everyone has the facility of on-line banking and parcels cannot be posted through the TV set! I suppose the idea would be to have Post Offices in supermarkets as in parts of Australia but, there again, supermarkets are situated outside of villages in this country and to reach them requires transport. A difficult one.
2007-03-27 18:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by Winnie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The government seem to like making our lives difficult.
I live in a village with one shop and a post office and if that went, its at least 5 or 6 miles to the nearest town.
The government should try living in the real world for a day, things would change then!
2007-03-27 05:37:08 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree this is ridiculous. I live in a smallish village and the post office is always so crowded people are queuing out the door! And as well as the fact that alot of people will have to drive when they could previously have walked, what about the elderly people who really rely on them?! they cant all drive to one to get their pension so how are they going to cope??
2007-03-27 05:36:53 · answer #5 · answered by G*I*M*P 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the people living in rural areas are losing their Post Offices because they don't use them enough.
2007-03-27 17:18:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Was this question asked by somebody in America or in Britain? Here in Britain we are also losing our post offices but postal rates still rise and rise. The new thing in Britain is charging by size as well as weight. The basic national first-class rate for an ordinary size letter is 32p, but if you use an A5 size envelope, it is 41p and the rate is even higher for an A4 size envelope. Do they do this in America? You don't have to just weigh your letter these days - you have to measure it also.
2007-03-27 05:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The UK.gov is not only 'trying' to get rid of rural Post Offices, it is actually doing it on a big scale.
2007-03-27 10:06:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap
2007-03-27 08:51:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The US Postal Service is like any other business you have to cut the non profit making units in order for the company to be prosperous, translation welcome to the world of e-mail and it's pitfalls.
2007-03-27 06:15:16 · answer #10 · answered by ULTRA150 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋