Post Office Closures

As someone who lives in a town and uneffected, I may not know what I am talking about ("What's new?" I hear a lot of you say), however I do believe that these closures are wrong, and deeply bad for social justice and rural communities.

This is because Post Officers are vital public services for those who use it, and even though that might be a minority of people in some rural areas, it is still important for them, what the New "Labour" government fails to understand in Westminister that some people do not own the internet, they may not even own a computer, that means that they cannot use the internet to print off stamps, nor can they send e-mails to people. Their is also the fact that some of them won't own a car or are unable to drive for whatever reason, how are they meant to get into a town to post a pracel? Public transport is a shambles and can be quiet expensive to use it just to get into town to do a simple thing like posting a parcel, which they could have done in their local post office.

If people are not using the Post Office, it could well be because the govenment has removed a lot of services from there (dare I suggest that this was a long term plan of theirs with the conclusion of privatisation yet to come?) however some people still need and use the post office, its an important stone in the community.

Closing them would hurt vunerble people, and leave them without anywhere to turn to, that is not what the Labour Party was meant about, we are meant to be the party protecting the vunerble and the worst off, not doing some crackpot money saving cuts, it's a public service, if it is making a loss (which is the fault of withdrawing services) fix it by returning the services there, or doing something else to keep the open (like proper nationalisation), closing them down is the wrong thing to do.

With more closures planned in deprived urban areas, this policy will only serve to be regressive and against the principles of the Labour Party. If New "Labour" truely wanted to be a progressive party, it would keep the Post Offices open and keep them as a true nationalised company, instead of this crazy package of closure, to "save money" and attempt to justify privatisation, which would have even worse conquences then the closures.