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“The Labor Party will be a joke to cut off the local post office network or to leave the fate of the network in the hands of the market.

“It’s hard to predict the importance of the local post office to millions of elderly people.

“The post office is a shelter for anyone who is digitally excluded from many other services, and the post office keeps the cash economy alive.

“Elderly people can reach their pensions and benefits, pay bills on the counter and send gifts and cards.”

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Mr. Reed added: “The old knees will tremble in the idea of ​​losing basic local post office and congratulating Express for starting this campaign.

“Local Post Office is the last to the march of the digital world that left millions of retirees behind.

“You can still pay your pension in cash in the post office, pay your public service bills as checks or cash, pay in checks, and make simple banking in the increasing absence of local bank branches.

“The government should not entertain any decrease in post office branches that provide a more important public service.

“The worker seems to be ready to throw this vital and productive network that supports the cash economy and supports public administration and provides a vital human connection with public administration.”

The workers’ government said that its preference was to maintain the minimum branch requirement of at least 11,500 post office.

However, it is investigating other options such as scrapping the limit and leaving the size of the network to the post office.

However, at least 99% of the company’s population will have to ensure that a branch remains within three miles.

The government admitted that it would probably be a concern for communities, and added that it was not preferred.

Another option is to develop new requirements to target local areas with insufficient service provision.

The number of post offices that provide services including letters and parcels, banking and invoice payments decreases.

In 2000, since March 18,393, there was 11,805 post office outlet in England.

The decline began in the 1980s and 1990s before it accelerated in the mid -200s.

The conservative coalition government introduced 11,500 minimum service in 2010.

Tor Deputy Dame Harriett Baldwin filed a petition called Save Your Office, which he said he had created more than 100,000 signatures.

“We are aware of a strong and accessible post office network to provide services valued by communities in the UK.

“It was right to consider a series of options to secure the long -term future of the organization, but it was clear that our preference was to keep the general dimension and shape of the network the same.”