Closing date for post offices

Post offices in Shropshire lined up to close once an ongoing consultation exercise has been completed will shut before the end of the year, bosses have revealed.

Twenty-eight post offices branches across the county are earmarked for closure by Post Office Ltd as part of a national cash-saving programme.

A consultation process is currently under way and is due to end on June 9, but Post Office bosses have revealed that once the exercise is over and final decisions made, affected branches will close within months.

Mark Partington, network development manager for Post Office Ltd, told residents the news when asked about a timescale during a packed public meeting last night about Greenfields Post Office in Shrewsbury.

He said: “We’re planning to have closures completed by the end of this year.”

Richard Hall, a spokesman for Post Office Ltd, today said once the consultation process was over there would be at least two months before any branches closed.

He said once the six-week consultation ended, bosses would take three to four weeks to go through all of the submissions.

There would then be four weeks without closures, with all closures due to be completed within three months of that.