Residents in this town are not happy
It’s a bitterly cold Monday afternoon and a steady stream of customers filter in and out of the Post Office in Leigh . Some walk in with parcels, others are here to pay their bills. Some are simply here to chat to staff for advice.
“I have an eBay account and I sell watches and send them all around the world. I have sold some big names but mainly Casios. I’m on first name terms with the majority of the staff in there. It’s a busy Post Office and surely it must be making money. Wanting to kill two birds with one stone, he decided to visit the local Post Office to enquire about renewing his passport. When the M.E.N. caught up with him, he had already been on a ‘wild goose chase’ looking for the right building."It had been open for about 100 years and they shut it down, they’re shutting them all down. Where I’m from the nearest Post Office is about two or three miles away in Stockport town centre. And now they might be shutting that one down too.
"I use it for the same sort of things. If it was to go, life would go on as usual for me, but for an awful lot of people I know it wouldn’t. “I’ve always used this one, I don’t use many of the agency ones. I wouldn’t want to think that I’d have to get into a car to try and find a Post Office, where are they?"
Taking to Facebook, Platt wrote: “Post Offices provide essential services to our community. The announcement that Leigh Post Office on Silk Street is at risk of closure is extremely concerning for the people in Leigh, and for residents and local business alike.
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