|
| |
Royal Mail announces closure of
Hazlemere Delivery Office!
|
On 28th April 2011 ROYAL MAIL announced their intention to close
the Hazlemere Mail Delivery Office at Oakengrove Road in the Autumn. The property is
already on the market (view
here) so any public protests at the closure need to be
quick!
Concerns about this "clear reduction in service" was raised at the Hazlemere
Parish Council meeting by Cllr Mapletoft, having been first raised at the Annual
General Meeting of Hazlemere Parish Council by Councillor John Rhodes, who had
picked up on this story from reports in the Bucks Free Press' sister-paper The
South Bucks Star. Cllr Rhodes believed that the closure of Hazlemere's Delivery
Office would have a catastrophic effect on the 20% of Hazlemere's population who
are over the age of 65 and rely on the post for their communication with the
outside world. For these residents arranging redelivery of their parcels on the
internet is not an option and the alternative, catching a bus down to Queen
Victoria Road in Wycombe's town centre means a day out of their life. Any who
are able to drive to the main parcel office in Wycombe will find NO PARKING
(even short term parking) at the sorting office!
All the correspondence from Royal Mail relating to this closure focus on
operational issues and cost savings - at NO TIME do they pay ANY attention to
the public they serve and who pay their wages!
Let us know your thoughts on this closure and, if you would like to object,
then contact Royal Mail's Chief Executive Moya Greene at:
moya.greene@royalmail.com
or write to her at: Royal Mail, 100 Victoria Embankment, London.
EC4Y 0HQ.
|
| |
|
  
|
| |
| In response to articles about the Hazlemere Delivery Office closure,
readers have written their comments on the Bucks Free Press website. There follows
below a
selection of such comments - some are from Royal Mail Delivery Staff, who have
experience and "inside knowledge" of exactly what this closure will mean to the time
residents will receive their normal letter mail delivery and parcel collection.
At 10:02am on Sun 1st May 2011 Daemonite ,Loudwater
says...
"The office at Hazlemere is a delivery office
only. So once all the deliveries have been done , it's closed for the day. It
has been talked about closing for nearly 20 years, but common sense kept it
open.
What time do you people in the HP15 area want your post?
At the moment, when a postman is ready to go out whether on foot or by bike,
they simply go. When they move to Wycombe, they'll have to wait for their
transport to be ready with others, then fight the morning traffic up Amersham
hill.
Another stupid decision by the blinkered management"
At 11:10pm on Thu 5 May 11 hp15 deliveryman ,
hp15 7re says...
|
    |
| In response to articles about the Hazlemere Delivery Office closure,
readers have written their comments on the Bucks Free Press website. There follows
below a
selection of such comments - some are from Royal Mail Delivery Staff, who have
experience and "inside knowledge" of exactly what this closure will mean to the time
residents will receive their normal letter mail delivery and parcel collection.
At 10:02am on Sun 1st May 2011 Daemonite ,Loudwater
says...
"The office at Hazlemere is a delivery office
only. So once all the deliveries have been done , it's closed for the day. It
has been talked about closing for nearly 20 years, but common sense kept it
open.
What time do you people in the HP15 area want your post?
At the moment, when a postman is ready to go out whether on foot or by bike,
they simply go. When they move to Wycombe, they'll have to wait for their
transport to be ready with others, then fight the morning traffic up Amersham
hill.
Another stupid decision by the blinkered management"
At 11:10pm on Thu 5 May 11 hp15 deliveryman ,
HP15 7RE says...
As a postman and someone who also lives in the
hp15 are a,
I find it difficult to understand where these letters of information to
customers have come from! I certainly cannot remember delivering these! I
don't think Councillor David Cox has really spoken to any of his
constituents on this matter because every customer I have spoken to is
massively against the closure!
As many customers will already have noticed, their mail is getting delivered
later and later. This will only get worse if the move to Wycombe goes ahead!
Contrary to the story in this paper, it isn't the collection of undelivered
post that will be affected, it will be what time it is first delivered that
you will notice!....Hopefully you will receive that cheque before the bank
closes!!!
Royal Mail is treating your local Post Man with such disregard that soon he
or she will not have time to say hello or shut your gate properly as they
pass you by!
Please voice your opinion direct to Royal Mail on this
move!..................Thank you"
At 5:26pm on Fri 8 July 2011 handsworth,
Buckinghamshire says...
"Several
councillors said it doesn't matter to them personally.
That's apparently OK then?
So all the people in the Hazlemere area whose daily lives and businesses
depend on collecting post or undelivered items from the local delivery
office don't matter to Hazlemere Parish Council?
It's fine to take a 45 minute minimum round trip out of every day in
future to troop down into High Wycombe instead is it?
Councillors need to realise they represent a whole community here, whose
daily post involves a little more importance than Reader's Digest
magazines and electricity bills!
Keep Hazlemere delivery office in Hazlemere, it's hardly a quiet backwater of lazy and retired, it's full of people who rely on that service" |
|
|
