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Just one Post Office left in W14

July 25, 2004

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Conservatives condemns Labour over Post Office destruction programme

Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, Cllr Greg Hands, is furious that the W14 postal area is being forced by Labour to survive with just one sub-Post Office.

The area, which is home to roughly 48,000 people, has seen two post offices closed in the past 18 months, on North End Road and Richmond Way and the remaining sub-Post Office is staffed by one elderly couple.

Greg Hands has said:

"The Post Office and their Department of Trade & Industry masters are systematically closing our local post offices - this cannot be allowed to continue.

"One sub-Post Office to service 34,000 people is ridiculous and it is entirely the fault of the Labour Government. It is no wonder we have a third class post in Hammersmith & Fulham.

"Thousands of elderly people rely on sub-Post Offices for their pensions - not to mention the other services offered. One branch, run by one elderly couple simply isn't enough. The Blythe Road Post Office does a wonderful job given the circumstances, but to burden them with all of W14 just isn't fair.

"I want to see action from the Government that will solve the problem. All I am seeing is more and more cuts."

He is not the only complaining...

"The problems we have with mail are clearly partly due to the fact that the staff don't know the area"

"Why is it that every piece of junk mail gets to me unerringly but whenever I'm expecting a cheque in the post it seems to get lost?"

"The Brackenbury Residents Association has written a long letter to Vencourt Place with examples from members' experiences... There has been no improvement in the mail service..."

"Time was when one could almost set one's watch by the regularity of our old Postie and our splendid milkman"

"Is anyone else fed up with the deterioration of the postal delivery service in Hammersmith?"