Post offices: so much for consultation
Vine Grove,
Clifton,
Brighouse
Courtesy of our European Union partners, last week was a bad week for local communities eager to retain the services of their neighbourly post offices.
Leeds reported that, of the 22 post offices earmarked for closure, all were to be closed.
Nearer home, Calderdale followed suit with its batch of 11 post offices.
So much for the all-too-prevalent box-ticking exercise rolled out by authorities nationwide nowadays, a vogue that is long on rhetoric but consistently short on promise.
This process, as things appear at the moment, almost always results in disappointment for the embattled victims. This process is called "consultation".
A soporific if ever there was one.
George Simpson
The full article contains 122 words and appears in Evening Courier newspaper.
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Last Updated:
24 July 2008 8:35 AM
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Source:
Evening Courier
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Location:
Halifax
