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On Monday 17th March 2008 The Daily Telegraph published a story "1000 village shops may close with post offices ", reporting that the shops are "facing the threat of closure over 'draconian rules' that will ban them from offering rival postal services after their own Post Office sections are shut down.... About half of the 2,500 post offices earmarked for closure double as local shops". 

Read on to sign the Federation of Small Businesses' petition to save our shops.....

Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart comments on the news that many Government Ministers and Labour MPs are campaigning against Post Offices being shut down in their constituencies, whilst their Government continues to support a programme of closures.

The folllowing letter has been published in the Leamington Spa Courier :

Northern Rock... or post office network?

I note that the Government is committed to spending £110 billion, £3,500 for each of us, to keep Northern Rock, a bank with two million customers afloat.

It is not, however, willing to contemplate £5 from each taxpayer to support a Post Office network with 11.4 million customers. - Simon Hart, Chief Executive, Countryside Alliance, Kennington Road, London.

If your Post Office is under threat and you want to help to save it, then please contact the Countryside Alliance. We are co-ordinating help for communities who are fighting the closures and you can get involved by contacting Sarah Lee at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .