A community petition, led by Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, Tom Biggins, calling on the Government to put a stop to any further closures of Telford’s Post Offices.
Join our campaign
Together we can put a stop to any further Post Office closures in Telford. Please sign my on-line petition below.
Alternatively, you can download a petition form and get your friends and family to sign it. Better still, place it in local shops and businesses for signing. Then post the petition to Tom at his constituency office: Telford Conservatives, Broadway House, 2 Haygate Road, Wellington, Telford TF1 1SG.
Click here to download a Post Office petition form.
“We, the undersigned, support the Conservative campaign to stop any further Post Office closures in Telford. These Post Offices provide a vital and much used service for local residents. This petition will be delivered to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in London.”
POST OFFICE CLOSURES
“Enough is enough, say Conservatives”
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Conservatives have reacted with dismay to the news that Government is announcing more Post Office closures in Telford on the 1st April. It is estimated that another four Post Offices will be closed in the town, and this is on top of the five that have already closed since 1999.
Locally, these cuts will strike a hammer blow to those areas affected. Post Offices offer a valuable service to those residents that use them. To some they are the lifeblood of the community and without them many people will be denied a service that they should be entitled to. As the Government takes more responsibility away from the Post Office, many people are struggling to receive even the basic services, including collecting payments.
Together we can STOP the closure of more Post Offices. In keeping them open, the Conservatives plan to:
- Give sub-Post Offices more freedom to offer a wider range of business services.
- Push for more Post Offices to be ‘One Stop Shops’ - trained staff could then advise on a range of matters, including tax returns, pension entitlements, opening hours and so on.
- Encourage local Councils to open ‘Council Counters’ in local branches.
- Allow the Post Office to work with carriers other than the Royal Mail.
- Prevent the Royal Mail taking business away from sub-Post Offices by under-cutting the prices they can charge for postage.
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Post Office Closures:
What YOU should know
- Labour holds the record for closing Post Offices faster than any other Government - almost 10 a week since 1997.
- 4,000 Post Offices have already closed under Labour - that’s a quarter of the country’s Post Office network.
- The Government’s announcement that it will shut down a further 2,500 Post Offices will continue to decimate the network; by the time of the next election, Gordon Brown will have closed down a third of the entire Post Office network.
- The target that the Government has set for closures is arbitrary and illogical, taking no account of whether a Post Office marked for closure is profitable or not.
- Countless communities will lose their only shop and vulnerable people will lose a service they depend upon. Ministers have taken no account of the needs of the elderly, of the disabled, or of the most disadvantaged - the very ones who will lose out most.
- As few as 4,000 of Britain’s 14,300 Post Offices may survive Labour’s decade.
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“Conservatives in Telford have pledged to fight Post Office closures
and save our remaining branches.”
Sign our petition today!
