I cannot believe that Royal Mail is being so totally ignorant and arrogant in proposing to close the Ellesmere sorting office.
Having said that, I recently spent several years as a part-time postie in Ellesmere and I must confess that the standard of organisation in recent years left much to be desired. Obviously, most members of ‘upper’ management have never delivered a letter in their lives, as they have no idea what the job is all about – remember the 4 mile per hour ruling? – that was a laugh!
As far as the actual Ellesmere sorting office building goes, there is nothing wrong with it and R.M. recently spent (now wasted!) a large amount of money refurbishing the premises.
Ellesmere is now ‘on the up’ with hundreds of new properties planned for the Wharf development area, not to mention a new Tesco store with 150 jobs on offer, so where is the sense in closing a sorting office in a developing area?
Now what of the ‘green’ issue? Ellesmere based posties will be clocking up over 5,000 miles a year each, just travelling to and from Oswestry, not to mention the R.M. vans, which will cover around another 50,000 miles in bringing all the mail to the Ellesmere area from Oswestry. So much for any concern which Royal Mail may have had for its carbon footprint!
What about the town deliveries where the posties use trolleys? Where are the trolleys going to be housed, or will they have to be pushed from Oswestry every day?!! – With Royal Mail’s incompetence, even this would not surprise me! – or are we going to see yet another van choking the atmosphere?
Now down to the humble householder, who Royal Mail couldn’t care less about. Where will you have to go to collect your undeliverable parcels or Recorded & Special deliveries, because you were out when the postie called? Oswestry? – that’s a joke, because for people without their own vehicle, there is no public transport route to the Oswestry sorting office, and who would want to go that far anyway to collect their mail? On the other hand, perhaps all this mail will be left at the Ellesmere Post Office, where even now, there hardly seems room to swing a cat!
Royal Mail has got it totally wrong and just haven’t thought this through. Let’s all hope that commonsense will prevail, although with R.M. I’m afraid that is a contradiction in terms!

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