Friends of Bretforton Post Office

About PO Closures

The Post Office is in the middle of a process to close 2,500 Post Offices across the country. This closure programme was approved by the then Secretary of State for Industry Alastair Darling in 2007.

To implement the closure programme, The Post Office has divided the country into some 50 areas. For each area a list of proposed closures are published and then the public has 6 weeks to comment and object. A few weeks after the end of the consultation process, the final closure list is confirmed. The Post Office has committed to apply the closure principles equally across all areas.

Stakeholders - such as local councils and Postwatch, the industry watchdog - see the proposed list 6 weeks ahead of publication and are able to comment and request changes.

Bretforton's area - Herefordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands - will be the very last area for consultation, starting on the 27th of August 2008.

For more information on the Post Office closure programme, go to www.postoffice.co.uk/networkchange

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