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Name: Madeleine Biddlecombe on Dec 12, 2007Comments: Our Post Office is an essential aspect of rural life and a life line for many in the village and surrounding villages. It is a thriving community that will be hugely adversely affected by any curtailment of services.Flag
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Name: Vicky Eaton-orr on Dec 12, 2007Comments: This post offfice is a life line to many of our residents and the hub of our community, we her.have already lost a shop a pub do not destroy our commuinity furtFlag
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Name: Wendy Nelmes on Dec 13, 2007Comments: We absolutely need our post office. Not everone has access to transport and it really angers me that the bureaucrats think that everyone has access to the internet. Please consider the elderly when making life changing decisions on their behalfFlag
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Name: Susan Macarthur on Dec 13, 2007Comments: A total lack of joined up thinking - something we seem to be inundated with these days....Flag
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Name: Margaret Pearson on Dec 13, 2007Comments: I believe the closure of the Post Office will have a devastating effect an all in the local community, especially the elderly and thised without transport. If the Government is trying to keep cars off the road, this is not going tgo help as more of us will have to get in our cars to travel to Wilton!Flag
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Name: Austen & Julie McRoberts on Dec 13, 2007Comments: The impact of this planned closure would be extremely serious for the wider community as well as for Broad Chalke. With the steady erosion of Post Office facilities in the Chalke Valley the implications for many villagers, especially the elderly and infirm, would be grim indeed. The Broad Chalke Post Office is much more than a postal services facility, important though that is. Should the present Post Office close, and with it its friendly and informative local service, community life will be significantly impoverished and greatly diminished for many villagers along the valley. It surely should not be beyond the wit and imagination of the Post Office authorities to devise a strategy for maintaining this essential community service in situ!Flag
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Name: Libby Webber on Dec 13, 2007Comments: PLEASE sign this petition as I was devastated when bowerchalke post office closed and don't want this one to close it is essential for our community and for people who cannot get about as well as others it is absolutely disgusting so please show your supportFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Without doubt this is as a result of an EU directive that does not take into account damage caused to the local population as as Brussels implementing the grand plan know to all M.P's in the UK. - double standardsFlag
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Name: Tony Biddlecombe on Dec 13, 2007Comments: In 2005/2006 the Royal Mail, which includes the Post Office made bonus payments to its staff of nearly £100m and a profit from day to day operations of £609m. The Operating Profit was £355 due to the need to fund their pension deficit. If anyone tells you the Post Office is making a loss tell them that they are wrong. It is simply a question of how the accountants at Royal mail choose to allocate the money generated by our Post Offices.Flag
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Name: Lalla Hitchings on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Please DON'T close our post office. Our rural communities depend on such businesses for their very survival. Why increase our carbon footprint by closing such vital services in the countryside, forcing us to drive to Wilton for postal servicesFlag
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Name: Brian Mascall on Dec 13, 2007Comments: In a rural area the post office is essential for communication and as an important centre of community life. The increasing distances between post offices mean that more people will be driving greater distances to reach their nearest post office. This defies the trend in favour of reducing unnecessary travel.Flag
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Name: Charlotte Steel on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Losing the post office will be completely detrimental to this rural community. Many of the surrounding villages have already lost their post offices and now use Broadchalke. The Post Office is a busy and necessary focal point of the village and is used by many people and small businesses. We need to keep it open.Flag
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Name: Jon Curle on Dec 13, 2007Comments: unreasonable and unjust profiteering on the part of Royal Mail with no thought for the people and society who are in effect its owners and lifeblood!Flag
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Name: ANDREA CHALK on Dec 13, 2007Comments: The post office is an essential part of village life, providing a first class service to many, many people, including many who are unable to travel further afield. It is the core of our comunity and taking this away or cutting the services would devastate our village. KEEP BROAD CHALKE POST OFFICE OPEN !!!!Flag
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Name: Keith Graham Robinson on Dec 13, 2007Comments: If the post office goes so too will the shop as they feed off each other. This will kill the heart of the village.Flag
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Name: Roger Weaver on Dec 13, 2007Comments: If anyone out there has any interest at all in the future of this or any rural community this will be stopped. but DO THEY It must be seen as it is the final nail in the coffin of the village shop the ONLY facility for miles around not just a matter of post office facilities- large numbers of elderly people here have nothing else.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Frankly I am apalled at the apparent disregard for the welfare of this self-contained and rural community and the attack on its essential services. My greatest concern is for the elderly of the area - a growing subsection of our population and the destiny of us all - for whom it is already a major undertaking to reach this post office and shop, closure of the post office will likely seriously undermine the viability of the local rural shop too many of which have already been lost. As a regular user of the shop and post office service, I am unhappy for this proposed closure, not least as we already have suffered the loss of service due to recent changes in the postal delivery system anyway for 'cost-cutting'.Flag
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Name: Michael Evans on Dec 13, 2007Comments: This is yet another case of centralisation of public services that leads to mediocrity and yet more vehicles on the roads that are not designed for such use. Doing away with the post office may save the Royal Mail a few pounds but the overall cost to the public will increase. More cars on the roads leads to more accidents which in turn leads to a greater demand on police and NHS. Let common sense prevail for once. Leave the post office as it is and where it is.Flag
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Name: Puffin Moore on Dec 13, 2007Comments: The post office is important for banking donations to the RBL Poppy Appeal for the villages in the area. I run the Appeal for the Chalke Valley which consists of 7 Villages. All fnds get bank at Broadchalke post office apart from Coombe Bissett which is also closing!Flag
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Name: Susie Hatt-Cook on Dec 13, 2007Comments: For all of us who live in the Chalke Valley it is unthinkable that Royal Mail should even CONSIDER Broad Chalke Post Office as a candidate for closure... There is not much I can add, as far as singing its praises goes, to what has been so well written above: Sue gives a first-class and comprehensive service, and is ever professional, helpful, knowledgable, warm and humerous - and takes a huge pride in her work and what she has created for the benefit of not just the village but villages up and down the valley. To quote Rob, our 3rd generation butcher, the closure of the Post Office would mean "the slow death" of the shop, which is not just a great shop but the social heart of the village and beyond in opening hours. Customers come from as far afield as Coomb Bissett for Rob's superb meat. How can elderly people, many of whom don't drive, get over the Down to Fovant - let alone Dinton It is a crazy - and cruel - proposal, and MUST be reversed.Flag
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Name: Tom Herbert on Dec 13, 2007Comments: I think it is a fantastic service to the village and something that should be preserved.Flag
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Name: Raymond Gallop on Dec 13, 2007Comments: The Broadchalke Post Office and Sue Fry perform an important and unique role in the village and surrounding area. To lose the PO would remove the heart from the village and it is only second to the Church.Flag
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Name: Peter Smalley on Dec 13, 2007Comments: This busy post office serves the whole Ebble Valley and is essential to the community and is integral with the village shop. If the PO were to close or reduce significantly then it is likely that the shop would also close serious;y affecting village life. The alternatives all result in more car use as public transport is minimal in the area.Flag
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Name: Eileen Catterall on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Our Post Office is a vital part of village life in the Chalke Valley. If it closes we shall all have to use our cars much more. There is no bus service to either Fovant or Wilton As an older person I use it for all banking as well as for all the other facilities it offers. Without it we could even endanger our village shop which serves all the Chalke Valley. We are all trying to decrease our carbon footprint. Closing this local post office will immediately increase it for a great number of people. Community life is a rare commodity these days - rural post offices are vital for rural communities. Broad Chalke Post office represents all that is good in this respect.Flag
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Name: Eileen Catterall on Dec 13, 2007Comments: Our Post Office is a vital part of village life in the Chalke Valley. If it closes we shall all have to use our cars much more. There is no bus service to either Fovant or Wilton As an older person I use it for all banking as well as for all the other facilities it offers. Without it we could even endanger our village shop which serves all the Chalke Valley. We are all trying to decrease our carbon footprint. Closing this local post office will immediately increase it for a great number of people. Community life is a rare commodity these days - rural post offices are vital for rural communities. Broad Chalke Post office represents all that is good in this respect.Flag