Coupons fail to make impact
A coupon campaign aimed at pressuring the Government into keeping small post offices open, is so far struggling to make an impact.
A spokesman for the Postmaster-General, Mr Prebble, said that only 62 coupons had been received in his office by yesterday afternoon.
Three of those were in different names, but the same handwriting, he said.
Given that the coupons were sent free of charge under Parliamentary free
postal provisions, the response did not indicate a great degree of support, said the spokesman. The campaign has been organised by Mr Bill Woods, the owner of the Sheffield garage, in midCanterbury. The town’s post office is one of the more than 400 “uneconomic” offices due to close in a Post Office restructuring. Mr Woods arranged the publication of cut-out coupons in three national newspapers, last Sunday and Tuesday.
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