I am writing concerning your article (‘How the Post Office is adapting to new times,’ May 22).

We, in Cowley, are well blessed with our post office inside the Co-op, in Templars Square, often over-crowded on pension or allowances days and the end of the month, when car taxes are due.

Most days, there are elderly folk, chairs provided for tired legs, young mums with buggies, some people in wheelchairs, numerous crutches and walking sticks.

This is all right in a large building, our biggest hold-up being people doing business with eBay and the like. Not so in Witney. They have sadly lost their post office and are now squeezed in with birthday cards and all the newsagent’s paraphernalia. This was too small in the first place, let alone the buggies and wheelchairs it now accommodates.

With the wonderful history behind British postal services, beginning with ponies and then the Mail Train, where sorting went on all through the night as the trains covered most of the British Isles, the Royal Mail is surely entitled to a building of its own, even in these economic days.

The photographs of your readers have been a great pleasure to me recently. Thank you to all.

MARY STIFF
Corunna Crescent
Cowley

 

 

 

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