Charlie Boy Meynard

Do the write thing for post offices

I WOULD be lying if I said I was a frequent user of post offices.

However, I am still startled that a service as integral to any community can be so recklessly discarded.

To read that the Marsden Road office is set for the chop is even more shocking.

Only a week ago, I popped into the friendly branch to purchase a book of stamps and send off a few eBay items that I had recently flogged.

As I waited in a queue of chattering pensioners, I was struck by a pang of anger.

Where will they go now?

To you and I, a trip in the car to the next post office is an inconvenience.

To many of the elderly individuals I stood behind, it is an impossibility!

But there is still hope and still something that we can do to save an excellent service and allay the fears of hundreds of concerned OAPs who could lose a lifeline.

If you feel even a slither of sympathy, write a short correspondence to the post office big boys who have made this clumsy decision. Every letter helps!