Will we lose our Crown Post Office?

2.59.18pm UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 2nd Nov 2004

Bath Councillor, Dine Romero, is writing to the Post Office demanding that they assure Bath residents that they are not secretly planning to close the Bath Crown Post Office following promises that the current round of closures, of six sub-post offices, would be the last proposed for the City.

Councillor Dine Romero (Lib Dem; Southdown), who is leading the campaign to save Southdown Post Office, says:

"It is unbelievable that only a few weeks after the post office close their consultation on closing popular sub post offices that it leaks out that they are thinking of closing our main Crown Post Office as well.

"The main Post Office in the centre of Bath is given as an alternative to current customers to the sub-post offices they plan to close.

"Now, according to national press reports and Unions, Post Office Ltd is considering closing or selling off half of the Crown post offices. This was despite promises made at the consultation meetings by the post office representative that no further closure plans were under consideration.

"I am writing to Don Foster MP, as well as directly to the post office, asking if Bath's main Post Office is one of the 270 crown post offices they are considering closing across the country".

Bath Liberal Democrats have led the campaign 'Don't KO our PO' which has seen hundreds of letters of protest and over 5,000 signatures against the proposed closure of 6 sub post offices in Bath.

National media have reported that the post office is now considering closing half of the main crown post office outlets, around 270, and it is feared that Bath could be one of them.

The Post Office have already been considering moving the current crown post office in Bath and it is feared that this may make it more vulnerable if a massive closure programme was implemented by the post office and the Labour Government.