Proposed Post Office Closures in Sussex

[Goodfella]

Only grannies send parcels from small post offices and who wants their shit presents anyway?

Tut! Tut! you'll be a granny one day.

 

[Djmiles]

The nearest Post Office to me is closing but, thinking about it, I've never actually used it anyway.

Too close to Bentswood for my liking anyway

Closure of New England Road and Franklands village leaves Haywards Heath with 1 post office - where parking nearby can be a complete bastard!

 

[colinpants]

What makes me laugh is the slogan on the adverts is, "the peoples post office."

 

[Yorkie]

Indeed they are. And stamps can be bought anywhere.

What gets lost when a local post office goes is the shop that it supports. In rural areas, this is often the only shop for miles. Running a village shop is uneconomical without the income from the Post Office.

See Copthorne. It is the only post office in the village.

 

[Cian]

Didn't particularly mean for pensions,but a lot of older folk i know use the local post office for little bits of grocery to save them going to one of the larger supermarkets, often miles from where they live.

Even where I'm from - a small island with 500 people - the post office does post and the shop sells groceries...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Every single one of these closures represents a large number of infirm pensioners in small villages being forced on to SERIOUSLY shite small village bus services (maybe two buses out in the morning, two buses in in the afternoon) in order to pick up their pension. Sometimes I despair of the Labour Party. How the f*** has it come to this? Who exactly is it they represent nowadays? Like the Tories before them, they appear to know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Alternative proposals worth considering might involve sacking that cu_nt Crozier. Withholding his two million quid 'performance' bonus would surely save a good number of these essential services to small villages.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

See Copthorne. It is the only post office in the village.

My school used to spank Copthorne at Cricket, Rugby and Football.

Christow, the village I lived in down in Devon, could easily lose their post office as the village shop was seperate from the PO. But then that does not account for picking up pensions etc. There were no card facilities within 15 miles except for the local pub. There are going to be a large amount of people marooned from these closures. But could we afford to subsidise them?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There are going to be a large amount of people marooned from these closures. But could we afford to subsidise them?

Way is see it is we OWE these people. If anybody deserves subsidising, its them. Not that subsidise is the right word. Seems like we're doing them a favour. If it wasn't for the more elderly of today's pensioners, we'd all be speaking German with a crap accent. And a country that makes the cost-cutting decision not to look after its old people has no right to call itself civilised IMHO.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Only grannies send parcels from small post offices and who wants their shit presents anyway?

That's absolutely not the case.

Our village post office out here in Firle has seen parcel business boom in recent years. It's all those eBayers.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Way is see it is we OWE these people. If anybody deserves subsidising, its them. Not that subsidise is the right word. Seems like we're doing them a favour. If it wasn't for the more elderly of today's pensioners, we'd all be speaking German with a crap accent. And a country that makes the cost-cutting decision not to look after its old people has no right to call itself civilised IMHO.

Whilst I agree with your sentiments, it is a difficult topic to broach. Financially, I would imagine that we do far more for our OAPs than many of our European neighbours.

I think our Europeans counterparts have the best method. As you well know, a large amount of elderly live with their families.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Post Offices are threatened everywhere,
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but the main threat is that not enough people actually use them these days. As a result they are not sufficiently profitable for the state (ie you and me as taxpayers) or the Post Office as a company to subsidise and retain them. Although there is the same outcry every time something like this finishes or closes, the real issue is that those who are complaining loudest simply haven't used the facility enough in the past, or been able to generate sufficient use, to enable it to justify its continued existence.

having said that I intend to buy all my Xmas presnets via Amazon or some other similar interweb site, but without someone to actually deliver the parcels this strategy to avoid Xmas shopping is a bit stuffed.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Can't PO diversify further? They obviously have enough capital and assets to borrow against, so why not use that option rather than throwing money at Crozier and other fellow fat cats...?

 

[BensGrandad]

Did I hear it wrong butr I thought that reasons behind thses closures wre that (a) It was government policy i.e reduced funding. (b) Pensions being paid into bank accounts have reduced the need ( c) TV Licence payments ahave gone to Pay Point (d) More and more people ar taxing their cars on line.

The basic answer is that we are using the post offices less and less and as they say if you dont use it you will lose it. The demand in general is not there for any that are scheduled to close.

 

[Yorkie]

As someone who will be a pensioner next year, I think the pensions being paid into a bank account is a much better scheme than at a local post office. A very dear friend of mine who is 90 now was attacked twice in 2 years walking home from the Post Office having collected her pension (the local thugs knew which day pensions were paid out) knocking her down to the ground and stealing her bag.

Having said that, post offices are essential for sending parcels, letter recorded delivery etc etc. I can understand areas like Seaford and Newhaven closing down their little ones as we have a main PO in the centre and it isn't too far to walk but as I have previously mentioned, somewhere like Copthorne (I have family there) will have to get a bus or drive into Crawley now.

 

[Cian]

(the local thugs knew which day pensions were paid out)

Was it not possible to collect pensions after pension day? Thats what my grandmother always does (still paid by the post office here), the scum from the council block next to the post office assume an old lady at the post office on a Monday is probably posting a letter, not collecting the pension that was paid out on Friday...

 

[TonyW]

Another two in Seaford set to close.

Think that leaves a grand total of two for a population of 25,000 (Walmer Road and Church Street).

That's 2 too many.
Should have closed the things down years ago - they're all muppets!!