Post Offices
Incredible as it sounds, the Government’s intentions for post offices include over two thousand further closures over the next two years despite the 28 million people who use post offices every week. This awful policy was supported by Labour in Birmingham during a Lib-Dem sponsored debate.
Government plans would mean yet more closures in Birmingham on top of the offices paid to shut and those that go because the Government takes business and services away, swelling the profits of banks.
Telling people to use the internet - as Labour in Birmingham have done - won’t help most old people or the one in three who don’t have a computer.
Cllr Michael Wilkes comments: “So called ‘consultation’ makes little difference. We support the efforts of local business to try to replace the lost post offices in our area. We will do our utmost to keep these key services and the local shopping centres in Hall Green that are vital to our local communities”.
