How can the Government claim to have concern for the needs of the public and still consider the closure of post offices? Hospitals, roads and defence are not profit-making concerns with a responsibility to shareholders.

Neither should post offices be.

They provide an essential service for which government funds should be provided. To close village post offices is to tear the heart from those communities. To expect the old and infirm to journey to a distant town demonstrates a total lack of concern from a Government which professes to consider the elderly. Perhaps the hidden agenda is to phase out post offices altogether. This will inevitably result if the public become even more dependent upon email.

  • Maurice Packham, Station Road, Horsham