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Campaigners put post office back on the map in Olympia
Katharine Barney, Evening Standard30.01.09
THE only postcode in London without a post office will have service restored almost a year after the last one closed.
The post office counter inside the Costcutter shop near Olympia in Hammersmith Road - W14 - shut last February. But after vigorous campaigning by Hammersmith and Fulham council and residents, a new contract has been sealed. It is understood that the owner of North End News has just signed the deal with the Post Office to become a new sub-post master.
The shop in North End Road, only yards from Costcutter, will house a counter but it is not known yet when the branch will be up and running.
The post office will serve the W14 population of 35,000, roughly the same as towns such as Boston in Lincolnshire, which has 22 post offices, or Canterbury, which has 21.
Reader views (2)
If Mandelson succeeds in selling part of the Royal Mail to the Dutch then all our local post offices will disappear. Keep what is left of our British firms in British hands.
- R.F., Yorks, UK
Royal Mail are a disgrace. We have facts showing they closed at least two highly profitable post offices in Balham SW17 and Clapham SW4.
Clearly not enough for the greedy purse string holders at HQ.
They deserve to loose everything as far as I'm concerned.
- Simon Caleb, London
