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Post Office

26 November 2008

Campaigning to save post offices

AFTER THE announcement in June that 22 post offices would close in Leeds, three in the Beeston area alone, as part of the government's closure programme Beeston Communities Against Post Office Closures (CAPOC) campaign launched into action, writes Manny Dominguez.

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19 November 2008

U-turn over post office card account

Successsful campaign stops closure of post office in Stroud, photo by Chris Moore

Successsful campaign stops closure of post office in Stroud, photo by Chris Moore

In a delayed and surprise announcement last week, arch-Blairite Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell announced that the government is abandoning the competitive tendering process and awarding the continuation of the Post Office Card Account contract to the post office for a further five years from 2010, writes Alistair Tice, Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures.

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19 November 2008

Stroud post office saved!

POST OFFICE campaigners in Stroud, Gloucestershire were celebrating the reopening of Uplands post office, despite the best efforts of the government and Post Office Ltd to close it, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Save Our Post Offices.

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19 November 2008

Coventry fights post office closure

THE SOCIALIST Party and its councillors in Coventry have collected 5,000 signatures against the closure of Hertford Street Crown post office and the transfer of its business, by a national privatisation deal, to WH Smith...

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29 October 2008

Postal workers march for their jobs

AROUND 1,000 postal workers, their families and supporters, defied the wind and rain to march through Crewe on 25 October, writes Andy Bentley, Stoke Socialist Party.

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17 September 2008

No to post office closures

PLANS TO close nine sub-post offices, vital local services, across the Huddersfield/ Colne Valley area are a hammer blow to these communities, Huddersfield Socialist Party members write.

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10 September 2008

No to post office closures

SHEFFIELD PEOPLE have taken to the hills to protest at threatened post office closures. On 6 September campaigners marched from two post offices to show how inaccessible Post Office Ltd's so-called 'alternative'...

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18 August 2008

Sub-post office closures in Huddersfield protest meeting

The announcement of plans to close nine sub-post offices across Huddersfield and the Colne Valley area has come as a hammer blow to these communities...

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13 August 2008

Save our Post Offices: Sheffield campaign builds strength

WITHIN 48 hours of Post Office Ltd announcing 16 branch closures in the city, Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures (SCAPOC) contacted all the sub-postmasters and held a 30-strong campaign meeting including reps from the National Federation of Subpostmasters, Communication Workers Unio, writes Alistair Tice.

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31 July 2008

Campaigners keep fighting to save local post offices

THE CAMPAIGN Against Post Office Closures public meeting, 22 July, was a big success. Local residents and campaigners in Beeston, Leeds, came together to discuss what we can do in light of the announcement...

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