Shoppers must help post offices to survive

Tony Blair once said about the Post Office “use it or lose it”, meaning that if people stopped going to post offices they would have to close. What does annoy me is the amount of people who go to a post office for their pension or benefits, then go to a supermarket to buy their goods, even though the post office sells the essentials.

Tony Blair got rid of the pension book and introduced Post Office Card Accounts, then said it was only until 2010. It must have cost millions setting it all up, just to throw it aside. He went on to say that after 2010 people must have their pensions and benefits put into their bank accounts. As 30 per cent of people do not have a bank account, and no way of owning one, how are they going to manage miles from a town?

So he must either keep the card account or allow a private firm to take it over.

I saw in the paper that he was doing his bit to help the environment by replacing his light bulbs with environmentally friendly ones and turning his heating down? Why was it on in August?