It is devastating enough for local communities to lose 2,500 post offices, including 22 in Oxfordshire, but now we hear there is no promise by the Government to maintain existing subsidies past 2011, thus threatening even more closures.
Just what do we pay our taxes for? Is it not to provide public services?
As someone with mobility problems and living in a village, I rely on my local post office and shop, and walk to it most days.
With these closures, people will be forced to drive instead of walk, thus increasing CO2 emissions.
It is not widely known, but the break-up of the Royal Mail (alias "modernisation") was started in 1997 with EU Postal Services Directive 97/67/EC, designed to open up the market to competition.
That interference has turned a once-envied postal service into the shambles it is now. The sooner we leave the EU, the better.
STEPHEN NASH Washington Terrace Middle Barton
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