The proposed closure of Finchley Central Post Office
16th February 2004 by Simon
It has been suggested that the Post Office in Finchley Central (otherwise know as Church End), London should close. The public rose up to make their feelings known on the days of ‘consultation’, standing outside on a freezing cold day. I went along and could hardly get in to the branch due to the queue of customers waiting to use the Post Office services. This isn’t unusual, it has huge queue every day.
I asked the one of the two harangued Post Office representatives why the branch needed to close. The expected ‘financial reasons’ excuse was trotted out. When I asked for a slightly deeper explanation, I was told they didn’t have any further information. How patronising - just expecting their customers to be bamboozled by the cloak of ‘financial reasons’, with no intention of explaining what this meant.
The ‘consultation’ is total window dressing, smoke and mirrors to try and fool the public that their feeling/thoughts are being taken into consideration. Unfortunately for the Post Office, the public isn’t being fooled by this and can see through this patronising sham.
The Post Office is vital to sustaining a local area. People who use the Post Office will then use the surrounding shops and the local business and the many self employed rely on it send packages. If this central keystone is removed from an area, there is a very real risk that, over time the area it sat within will wither and die.
The underlying reason the branches are being closed is because of the incompetence of the Post Office senior management, who despite their monopoly still manage to lose money on a colossal scale. Why should the UK’s society suffer because of their failings?
It was reported in our local paper that the Post Office is offering to pay the people running sub-Post Offices, £200,000 - the equivalence of 26 months wages, to close. What kind of insanity is that?
In a time where competition will be arriving for the Post Office, they should be trying to make friends, not enemies. When a choice becomes available, current customers will remember and will make a active choice to _not_ support the Post Office. If this policy is pursued, the UK Post Office is finished.
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