Home service as post office to close

A home outreach service will be introduced in a south Shropshire village, Post Office bosses said today. The new service will replace Munslow Post Office, housed at Aston Munslow Garage.

It follows confirmation last July that the existing branch would close under Post Office Ltd's area plan for Shropshire and Staffordshire.

The home outreach service will allow people in the community, who register for the service, to order Post Office products and have them delivered to their home or to a local drop in centre.

A home outreach service will be introduced in a south Shropshire village, Post Office bosses said today. The new service will replace Munslow Post Office, housed at Aston Munslow Garage.

It follows confirmation last July that the existing branch would close under Post Office Ltd's area plan for Shropshire and Staffordshire.

The home outreach service will allow people in the community, who register for the service, to order Post Office products and have them delivered to their home or to a local drop in centre.

Michael Lewis, who currently runs the post office at Aston Munslow Garage, said: "It is a terrible shame for the community that our post office is shutting. It is going to make it really difficult for everyone."

Mark Partington, network development manager for Shropshire and Staffordshire, said: "The home service in Munslow offers a convenient way for customers to continue to access Post Office services locally.

"We've had to make changes in order to put the network on a more stable footing for the future and achieve this in a way which best meets the demands and concerns of its customers."

But Buster Evans, chairman of Munslow Parish Council, said he felt the Post Office had "moved the goalposts".

He added: "As far as we were aware, we were outside their circle of responsibility. People are not going to do it. They will have to try and find their way to the nearest post office which means a round trip of 12 miles."