Post offices were permitted to remain open throughout coronavirus lockdowns in all four UK nations, but wider restrictions forced surrounding businesses to close and bans on most foreign travel impacted the viability of many branches. Brian and Joanne Young ran a branch in Neston, Cheshire, until they announced in June they could no longer afford to keep it open.
Mr Young said the branch had "lost a lot of footfall during the pandemic" due to businesses which needed banking services closing, and "lost transactions like travel money and travel insurance, which give us a form of income on commission", had also had an impact. The closure has left Neston, which has seen three banks shut in recent years, and its 8, residents with nowhere in the town that can handle banking transactions.
Liz McBayn, who manages the Claire House Hospice charity shop two doors down from the post office, said her staff used to "do all our banking and our daily cash transactions" at the branch, but would now have to travel a mile to the post office in Little Neston.
She said that would mean having to close the shop, which could see her "losing revenue". The world has changed since Franklin's day. Back then, the postal service was a unique, reliable, cost effective way to get letters and packages transported reliably.
The Postal Service's package business the one genuinely profitable portion of its operation has been eaten into by the likes of UPS and Fedex, as well as by rising gasoline prices.
Although the post office is reputed to lose money with each standard letter sent, millions of people today now communicate in character tweets or use Facebook to post status updates.
It's deeply ironic, then, that the Post Office is previewing some of its new stamp designs on its Facebook stamps page. So far Kimberly, Judi, Maria, and three others like the stamp designs. Hey, at least six people like the designs, right? That's something, anyway. In addition to closing many under-performing rural branches, the post office is planning on curtailing Saturday mail delivery. What do you think? Should the Franklin post office be closed?
What about the others on the closing list? It has already been doing what it can to protect itself. The price of a first-class stamp has gone up two cents this year, to 44 cents. The agency has , fewer employees than it did in Post offices are listed by region, not necessarily by state, so you may want to search the list to see if your post office is included. Postmaster General John Potter has already asked Congress for permission to cut mail deliveries from six days a week to five.
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