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Danger is, we’ll be saying goodbye to all post offices
• ON Monday (June 8) I stood in line to complete a transaction at Camden Town Post Office and waited over an hour for service.
Why are Camden Council dithering? They should take out an injunction against Post Office Ltd and force them to provide a service to the residents of Regent’s Park ward.
Council leader Keith Moffitt and his allies obviously care little about the interests of the elderly in the borough, otherwise they would have acted on their behalf before now. Someone should inform him that the Post Office do have mobile offices from which business can be transacted.
The Post Office has a statutory duty to enter into a six-week consultation with the public before a decision to close is made. Obviously this did not take place in the Albany Street instance. Now that a precedent has taken place Post Office Ltd can close any post office and say it is for contractual reasons, thereby circumventing the consultation process.
This is not a party issue rather a borough issue, possibly a national one. Unless Cllr Moffitt and his allies act swiftly we can say goodbye to all our post offices and see the construction of one super office.
Mukul Hira and Abdus Shaheed (Letters, May 14) would do well to devote their energies to encourage the council to act positively in securing our post office instead of their negative attacks on Tulip Siddiq who at least is doing something to save our post office.
Danny Gallivan
Rydal Water, nw1
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