Support Your Local Post Office

It's a strange phenomenon that when local shops and services don't get used and closure is planned huge campaigns get started to keep them open as they provide a "valuable service" for the community or are the "hub" around which the community gathers. Such hypocrisy must be hard to stomach for those small business owners and others who see a steady downward trend in their sales and footfall. 

Post Offices are particularly prone to this yet much of what they have traditionally offered can now be got elsewhere. To be fair the Royal Mail have responded in their own way by offering a far wider range of products than would have been seen even five years ago (a valuable lesson to many struggling retail businesses here). Backed up by an online presence that compliments rather than competes with its physical outlets means long term stability of sorts. 

This doesn't mean that Post Offices are safe for ever more. Nothing guarantees that. So the next time you need stamps, insurance or to pay a bill, use your local Post Office. If you don't it won't be too long before it closes for good.