Letter from Julian Brazier MP
Thank you for your letter of 6 December regarding
the Post Office consultation on the Network Change Programme.
I have to say that I am very concerned about
a closure in my constituency which has an unusual feature. The
Post Office announced a decision to move our main post office
to a first floor location in WH Smith, just after the end of the
consultation period on sub-post offices. They failed to take into
account, however, the impact of this move in consulting on two
of our branches, Northgate and St. Dunstan's.
In particular, the map and usage figures that
they produced in support of the decision are all based on the
old position of the main Post Office and not the new one. Obviously
moving the main post office south east would have been likely
to provide more work for the two sub-post offices in north west
Canterbury—Northgate and St Dunstan's.
I attach a copy of the maps and have marked
the new position of the main post office. Two further points are
relevant. First, the capacity of the main post office is materially
lower than at the old site. Second, the one remaining site in
North West Canterbury shown on the map is well over a mile away,
up a very steep hill.
11 December 2007
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