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Save our post offices

The Evening News has issued a call to arms to every reader to save our post offices.


Scores of branches locally are facing closure.


Send your views to Post Office Campaign, Evening News, Prospect House Rouen Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1RE or email eveningnewsletters@archant.co.uk


Remember, once they are gone, nothing will bring them back.

 


Meeting to discuss future of post office
Alison Cooper of New Costessey Post OfficeA sub-postmaster facing closure is tonight meeting up with the Post Office boss deciding her fate.
19 August 2008
 
Post Office bosses in new row
Post Office bosses are refusing to allow a sub-postmaster who wants to call it a day to close their doors, yet are insisting another post office which families are fighting to save must be shut.
08 August 2008
 
Cringleford Post Office is closing, but the stores is remaining openLast post as branches close
The shutters will be pulled down for the final time today on post offices in and around Norwich which failed to escape the cull of branches.
05 August 2008
 
Members of the public at the meetingFamilies discuss post office closure
The fight to save a post office from closing can be won - that was the message to angry families battling to stop their branch from being culled by Post Office bosses.
31 July 2008
 
Post office bosses looked at cutting staffing hours at the Mall branch - despite the regular queuesShock plans for Mall Post Office
Secret plans for the future of the city's post office branch in the Castle Mall have revealed bosses had been looking to cut staffing hours - even though queues regularly snake out of the doors.
28 July 2008
 
The North Earlham branch in Bowthorpe RoadNew blow for post office
A couple running a Norwich post office which is being forced to close have been dealt another blow after finding out customers will not be allowed to park outside the shop.
24 July 2008
 
New Costessey Post OfficePost Office in new blunder
Blundering Post Office bosses have been accused of ineptitude after it emerged they sent a letter asking a council to comment on the proposals to the wrong council.
23 July 2008
 
Pensioners hit hard by PO closures
A fresh attack was launched on Post Office bosses and the government last night as it emerged a third of pensioners in Norfolk and west Suffolk are set to be left without their local branch.
22 July 2008
 
The Post Office Ltd has come under fire againNew Post Office errors come to light
Post Office bosses today faced fresh accusations of making errors in documents they have drawn up to justify the closure of branches.
18 July 2008
 
Free advice for dying post offices
Sub-postmasters forced to close their branch are welcoming the news that they are being offered free business advice to help save their shops.
14 July 2008
 
Hope for New Costessey Post Office
A Norfolk sub-postmaster who could lose her business today said she was feeling positive about the prospect of saving her threatened post office after a meeting to keep it open.
09 July 2008
 
Alison Cooper of New Costessey Post Office.Meeting to help save post office
A Norfolk sub-postmaster who may lose her business is hoping a meeting with councillors tomorrow will help produce a strategy to safeguard the future of the branch.
07 July 2008
 
North Earlham Post OfficeMore misery as post office burgled
On the day that its demise was confirmed, bosses of a Norwich post office were dealt another blow when burglars broke into the shop.
25 June 2008
 
What now for the post offices which will close?What next for closed post offices?
What next for the Norwich five who lost their battle for survival?
25 June 2008
 
Castle Mall Post OfficePledge to turn around Mall branch
Post Office bosses have today pledged to transform the sub-standard service provided at Norwich's main branch.
25 June 2008
 
Save our Post Offices48 of the 51 post offices to close
A campaign to save 51 post offices in Norfolk has largely fallen on deaf ears as only three won a reprieve.
24 June 2008
 
Malcolm Wright outside saved post officeCity post office spared the axe
A city centre post office has been spared the axe, the Evening News can reveal.
20 June 2008
 
Post officesPost Office bosses refuse request
Post Office bosses are refusing to reveal whether Norfolk branches earmarked for closure are making a profit or loss.
17 June 2008
 
Six post offices in the city face closureWe're angry at 'insensitive' calls
Angry sub-postmasters have hit out at post office bosses who have called each threatened branch asking for a list of equipment that will need to be removed - despite there not yet being any decision on which offices will close.
13 June 2008
 
Fresh threat to Post Office future
As the deadline passes to try to save Norfolk's 51 threatened post offices it has emerged the network is battling a fresh threat to its future.
03 June 2008
 
  Post office petition handed in
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  Council to grill post office bosses
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Save our post offices

 

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10 reasons to save our post offices

 

Download a petition form (pdf)

 

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

Write or email with your views to either the Evening News at Post Office Campaign, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1RE

Call the PO consultation team on 08457 223344 or email the post office.

Write to your member of parliament

Call Postwatch, the watchdog for postal services, on 08456 013265, email or go to www.postwatch.co.uk


   
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