Picture: Cllr Ken Williams at Whitchurch Post Office during WDBC Post Office Week s
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WEST Devon’s Use your Post Office Campaign has won support from local MP Geoffrey Cox who joined West Devon Mayor Cllr Ken Williams at Milton Abbot Post Office to meet the postmistress Hilary Pitt and several of her customers.
The visit came at the end of a week of campaigning as the Council sent out a message of support to its rural and town Post Offices, and encouraged people to use the many services on offer.
Cllr Williams said that the week’s activities, which included a Post Office trail across the Borough, and a meeting with local representatives of the National Federation of Sub Postmasters, had been a great success.
Cllr Williams said: “The last week is just the first phase of an ongoing campaign from the Council. Our visits this week have made us even more aware how vital our local Post Offices are to the communities they serve.
“It was a privilege to meet so many postmasters and mistresses to see how much hard work they put into the service and into their communities. We all understand far better the difficulties they are facing and it is so important that Council does whatever it can to sustain morale. “
Mr Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, said: “ I’m delighted to support the West Devon Borough Council campaign. Post Offices are at the heart of our communities and it’s vitally important that we all use the very many services they provide.”
He said that he had recently met Alan Cook, the Managing Director of the Post Office Ltd., at Westminster to discuss proposals to close 2,500 Post Offices across the country. Mr Cox said that Mr Cook could provide no timetable for the closures but he was given an assurance that the Post Office would undertake a genuine local consultation after identifying sub-post offices that may be affected.
The visit came at the end of a week of campaigning as the Council sent out a message of support to its rural and town Post Offices, and encouraged people to use the many services on offer.
Cllr Williams said that the week’s activities, which included a Post Office trail across the Borough, and a meeting with local representatives of the National Federation of Sub Postmasters, had been a great success.
Cllr Williams said: “The last week is just the first phase of an ongoing campaign from the Council. Our visits this week have made us even more aware how vital our local Post Offices are to the communities they serve.
“It was a privilege to meet so many postmasters and mistresses to see how much hard work they put into the service and into their communities. We all understand far better the difficulties they are facing and it is so important that Council does whatever it can to sustain morale. “
Mr Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, said: “ I’m delighted to support the West Devon Borough Council campaign. Post Offices are at the heart of our communities and it’s vitally important that we all use the very many services they provide.”
He said that he had recently met Alan Cook, the Managing Director of the Post Office Ltd., at Westminster to discuss proposals to close 2,500 Post Offices across the country. Mr Cox said that Mr Cook could provide no timetable for the closures but he was given an assurance that the Post Office would undertake a genuine local consultation after identifying sub-post offices that may be affected.
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