Sir - I very much agree with your correspondent Deborah Manley (Letters, April 4) that serious consideration should be given to the city council making space available at the Ferry Centre at a suitable rent for a Post Office.
The city chief executive, Peter Sloman was right to say that an area as busy as Summertown should be an attractive prospect for the Post Office.
Recent experiences suggest that the central post office in St Aldates is sinking under the weight of existing custom with reports of queues into the street. A sub post office in Summertown would enable them to offer a more acceptable level of service to customers. I hope very much that a viable scheme can be developed. The risk must be that the Post Office with their impenetrable business model may simply announce that it is not financially viable.
Action by Government may is needed to stop the Post Office behaving like a nationalised industry of the 1970s.
Vernon Porter, Oxford
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