The 2500 PO closures are at the Governments order
The Royal Mail wanted to close 6000
As Letum stated the PO is in decline
No more Giro payments - all made into banks as are Pensions
Car Tax avaialble online
Those above knocked a big dent on Post Office counters turnover
No need for all the POs
You can buy your stamps and packaging anywhere these days
I work in the Swindon warehouse
The only one RM has left - used to have loads all over the UK
We supply the Post Offices direct so will face a downturn in work also
Early retirements already being offered
Plus it doesnt help the RM is capped by the regulators and FORCED to take mail from its competitors - the ones who took all the lucrative business work from the Royal Mail when the monopoly was ended - at a fixed rate for RM to deliver
Doesnt take a genius to work out if you lose all the big money contracts then are forced to deliver those for your competitors it stinks
Meh