http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk SOS - Save Our Shop! Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:19:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quote from the labour party's 2001 manifesto.... 'Labour is pledged to a rural services standard to set out specifically what rural people can expect from 21 service providers - with annual auditing and commitments to service improvements ... the Post Office is now obliged to prevent the closure of rural ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/03/06/from-daily-telegraph-letters/ For anyone who didn't hear him on the radio last week, another name for your letters list:   Alan McFadden, Minister for the Post Office.  I've had a very interesting reply from the PM and will be replying to him and writing to McFadden, asking them to get PO Ltd to extend the ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/03/02/marian-brewer/ Just E mailed this off to Clifton-Brown I recently wrote to you about the proposed outreach (ie closure) of Longborough P.O. Your reply was both insufficient and impersonal. First of all you managed to address the reply to my house name, rather than to me. Secondly, you stated you had too ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/28/angry-of-longborough/ Quote from Daily Telegraph Feb 26th The public consultation over the closure of 2,500 Post Offices is a'sham', Kate Hoey, the Labour MP said yesterday.  'What are we consulting about?  The Government has decided the target of closing2,500 and thats that' said the chairman of the Commons All Party Group on Sub-Post ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/27/kate-hoey/ We've had replies from Luff, Postwatch, Clifton-Brown &Cameron. Nothing new to report except the C.Brown website which is www.cliftonbrown.co.uk.  Apparently that will let us know of any protest marches etc.  We will write again to CB http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/23/10/ Can almost guarantee that everyone will receive the same responses - mine are identical to Alan's. I shall respond and suggest everyone else does, we are just being fobbed off - make them work a bit harder, a lot harder! Ask for answers and keep plugging away until we get ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/22/letters/ I have now had 3 replies to letters I sent: Post Watch have said they'll look into it and fight our corner if the closing criteria aren't met (the 3 mile zone, the accessibility to other POs, local transport and so on), so that looks quite positive. Clifton-Brown said he couldn't reply ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/21/letters-and-replies/ If you don't care about the PO note that the value of your property will go down if we no longer have a shop. FIGHT http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/20/property/ Remember we saved the school with a deluge of letters that left the powers that be in no doubt as to it's importance to our community.  The same applies, in spades, to our Post Office.  Write write write...... please!  Note that the number of people in the village who are reaching ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/20/a-numbers-game/ At the recent open meeting I was prompted to explain the basis of our village shop association.  I will place a very brief resume on record for the benefit of newcomers to the village The association dates back to 1998 when our shop was in imminent danger of closing and was saved ... http://s234660426.websitehome.co.uk/2008/02/20/harry-taylor/