Last updated 10:24, Friday, 04 July 2008

I think the post office closures are absolutely dreadful.

The main ones in rural areas are very important – particularly to the elderly.

They need to go to the post office to get their pension. They can’t have it paid into a bank, because they still have to go to the bank to draw the money out.

I live in a rural area and we only have two buses per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. If you go on the morning bus, you have four or five hours to wait until you can get the bus back.

People need cashflow for the normal things like buying food or necessary day-to-day routines such as paying the window cleaner or the newspaper man. All these things are relevant to having post offices.

My main concern is that they are closing the post offices because they can’t afford to run them.

However, they are governed by the Government and when you read all the expenses that councillors and MPs get, which are quite unnecessary, I do think it is high time that the British people pulled this country together again.

M SIMPSON
Rowrah