Here is really a tale to tell, which will, if something isn't sorted out soon, close a Post Office, all because Birmingham Council can't get its act in to order.
Over the past few years, Lindsworth Post Office has been subjected to robberies, so much so that Post Office Security have forbidden it’s staff to walk no more than a few yards to gain access to Post Office buildings.
Well that’s all well and good, but when Birmingham Council, then arrive one Sunday morning, without any bye or leave to local shop owners and erect metal railings, preventing vehicle access on to the frontage of the shops in Lindsworth Approach, what happens? Post Office security vehicles are unable to park close enough on most occasions and end up driving away, leaving the Post Office without any money, stamps or postal orders.
If there is no money to serve customers, what happens? Customers go elsewhere.
Now I’ve been working with Mandy, the post mistress for some months now to try to resolve matters, without much success and Birmingham Councils attitude hasn’t been at all helpful. I’ve had to call upon help from Steve McCabe MP to see if he can exert some pressure and as a last resort I’ve written to Birmingham’s Chief Executive, who in a recent meeting I had with him over post office closure agreed that they are a vital community resource that everything should be done to support them.
I now await a response to my letter from The Chief Executive.
Read more about it through the link.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/12/29/brandwood-end-traders-begin-to-feel-parking-pinch-97319-25485657/
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