post offfice closures

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By EL

Re: post offfice closures
Sun 29 Jun 2008 15:16

set up a petition im sure we will all sign it for you

By glynne

Re: post offfice closures
Mon 30 Jun 2008 19:22

Hello Ian, wishing you and all the rest that are faces with closure good luck, but it looks like an uphill struggle. Only the other week, I pay for some services by card at the P O, and was informed that Water could no longer be paid for at P O counters. I don't know who makes these decisions but it would appear that someone is determind to run down P O counters.

By madian7

Re: post offfice closures
Tue 1 Jul 2008 18:58

Hi El & Glynne,
Many thanks for the replies and to anyone lese in my position.Cut off point is the 9th July and all the letter writing has to be in by then.Its a very sad situation for us all.We had a walk last saturday to highlight the issues.We had a man who was elderly out on his bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!What a bike it was too,he never peaddled the whole way as it works on a battery.He said he can do about 30 miles before he has to peddle,blesshim.It was quite an opener for me.I would have got an petion up and running ,but we badly need the letters of complaints before ,the consultation period end.

Take care Ian

By glynne

Re: post offfice closures
Wed 2 Jul 2008 17:01

Will closing your post office bother this man?

It is amazing how £3million of public money can bring a little sunshine into your life.

Splashing through turquoise waters of a Barbados beach, this was how Britain's best-paid civil servant managed to avoid the dreary Bank Holiday weekend.

Adam Crozier - the Royal Mail chief presiding over thousands of post office closures - flew out day after it was revealed he was paid a staggering £3.04million last year - more than any other public worker.

Bright outlook: It certainly is for Adam Crozier as he enjoys his break in Barbados

His extraordinary bonanza at taxpayers' expense was branded obscene by an MP and immoral by a trade union at a time when he is shutting 2,500 post offices, tearing the heart out of villages and towns, and facing a national strike.

Not that any such clouds appeared on Mr Crozier's Caribbean horizon.

With the warm surf lapping at his ankles, he looks as though he doesn't have a care in the world.

Mr Crozier, 44, and his family are staying at Sandy Lane, one of the world's finest hotels, enjoying the comforts of a luxury suite costing £800 a night.

An onlooker said: 'He has been out every day on a jetski, zooming around the bay, and he's already looking tanned.'

Mr Crozier, the former head of the Football Association responsible for hiring Sven Goran Eriksson as England manager, travelled to Barbados first-class last Saturday on a British Airways jet where luxury seats start at £3,330.

There again, £3,330 is less than half a day's wages for him. Details of his pay packet were revealed in Royal Mail's annual report published late last Friday afternoon.

Billy Hayes, of the Communication Workers' Union, described it as an ' outrageous use of public money', adding that the pay award was a huge insult to Royal Mail staff and the public.

But Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton has insisted Mr Crozier is worth every penny, saying: 'The group, led by Adam and the team, has consistently exceeded expectations and met all the targets set by the shareholder.'

CROZIER'S WORLD

He earned £3million last year.
His basic salary was £633,000.
On top of that, he got £400,000 in pension and bonus payments.

And a whopping £1,993,000 from a long-term incentive scheme.

In 2005 he collected £2.7million.

He has closed 4,600 post offices.

And is shutting 2,500 more.

He abolished the second post.
Now the first post often does not arrive until the afternoon.

Fifteen million letters a year are lost.

the universal postal service lost £100million this year.

Last year's strike cost the Post Office £10million and British businesses £300million.