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HABROUGH PARISH COUNCIL have launched a
campaign to save the Post Office in Habrough.
It's clear
that people do not want the post office to close, but the council
will need the support of everyone in the village if we have any
chance of overriding the decision.
There is a
petition to sign at the post office so please sign this if you
haven't already.
And anything
that you'd like to send to me either through the website or in
writing I shall forward on to the board to help fight the
decision.
 Read Shona's letter to the Post Office
Board and the Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, Pat
McFadden as part of the Habrough Parish Council's Campaign to save
the Post Office in Habrough.
THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER -
UPDATE!
Post Office
Ltd have announced that the decision to close Habrough Post Office
will proceed.
This will
come as a huge disappointment to residents who have fought so
hard.
Shona is in
discussions with Post Watch about a further appeals
process.
| Shona - Message left at 08:45 pm, Mon 31st Mar 2008 |
There has never been a vote in the House of Commons to close Habrough Post Office. There has been a recent debate on the futire of the Post Office, though. In that debate there were two motions
before Parliament. One motion called for a suspension of the reorganisation. However, it wasn’t retrospective. Thus it would not affect areas like ours, who have now been through the process already.
It wouldn’t have re-opened a single post office that had already been closed. All it might achieve is to stop the redundancy payments to subpostmasters. The second motion before the House of Commons
proposed to invest of £1.7 billion into post offices between now and 2011. This is the motion I supported. It was also the motion supported by the Federation of Sub Post Masters. Without the extra
money that this motion proprosed, an estimated 7,000 more branches would have to close – we probably would not have any post offices between Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes. The Tories in Parliament
opposed the extra money, which shows the true hypocrisy of their position. As someone who fought against the privatisation of the post office before entering Parliament, I know that the Tories would
in their hearts like to be shot of the post office – just as they did all those years ago. |
| jii mathias - Message left at 05:36 pm, Tue 25th Mar 2008 |
Yes she did voting to commend the government on its dealing with the post office re-organisation (18th march 2008) i.e closure scheme |
| Norman - Message left at 11:56 am, Mon 24th Mar 2008 |
Didn't you vote to close this Post Office? |
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