The Old Post Office

Post Office Closures

This is a house sign that we’re likely to see a lot more of in our villages in the next few years. The government has announced that it intends to close up to 3000 post offices in the next couple of years, most of in rural areas. The Department of Trade and Industry considers the current number of 14,000 post to be unsustainable as they are losing £4 million per week.

Earlier this year Postwatch, the postal services watchdog, carried out research which showed the effect that post office closures can have on rural communities. It reported "Whilst it is not for Postwatch to engage in social engineering, who is going to look after the less mobile, the less well off and the elderly who can live in these villages at the moment because they have got a Post Office?"

It’s hardly surprising that the The Old Post Office was the highest new entrant in the Halifax’s 2003 house names survey, coming in at number 21.

Is your village next? - take a look at a guide to help prevent closure your local post office.