An 1,800-signature petition calling for a Telford post office to be saved from the axe has been hand delivered to 10 Downing Street.Tom Biggins, Conservative parliamentary spokesman for Telford, travelled to London yesterday to deliver the petition to the Prime Minister.
Randlay Post Office is one of 28 post office branches and mobile services across Shropshire facing the axe in a hit list of cost saving closures announced in April.
Mr Biggins said: “Randlay Post Office is such an important and much used facility. It is actually one of the busiest post offices in Telford. It provides a very valuable service not only to local people - and there are many elderly people living in the vicinity of Randlay - but it also provides a major service for businesses in Stafford Park and Halesfield.”
In a letter accompanying the petition, Mr Biggins laid out his reasons for saving the service.
He called for the Prime Minister to offer the post office a reprieve and to maintain it along with the other branches in the Telford constituency - Church Aston, Sambrook, both near Newport, and Wellington’s King Street.
MP Philip Dunne has also presented petitions with 2,165 names protesting at the planned closure of 14 post offices in the Ludlow constituency.
Mr Dunne presented his petitions to the House of Commons yesterday, the day the consultation period closed.
He also submitted his own comments on the consultation, including details of the petitions received per post office.
He said: “It will be the most vulnerable in our communities who suffer from the closures for which I will continue to hold the Government responsible.”
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