Postmaster whose father died in Air India crash faces battle with Royal Mail to save business
Air India A plane crash, a village mail manager who upsets his father’s loss, faces a war with a Royal mail to save his job.
Umang Patel flew to India to join hundreds of people who participated in the funeral of his father Kirit, who died when the flight of London fell during the departure in Ahmedabad last week.
Kirit Patel was on a flight to England, where he hoped to support his son and his son’s wife Vaishali, a post office and shopping in the village of Pensford Somperset near Bristol.
However, the enormous personal losses are not the only war that the family has to deal with, but by the decision to close a small delivery office that threatens the future of a small delivery office of the Royal Mail at the branch.
In April, Umang Patel called on the local Parish Council to support the village when he said that he had made up 60 percent of the post office’s income and that the branch would not be applicable without him.
The members of the Assembly responded by writing to oppose the closing, arguing that there was a “life line için for the vulnerable residents in the community, three miles away.
After Mr. Patel’s father lost last week, more than 1,200 people signed. The family also was the subject of a mass funding campaign that collected £ 11,000 after his death, but according to the peasant Jim Beacham, he said, “They wanted to be removed after the costs were met because they did not want to give advantage.
Royal Mail confirmed that there was a plan to close the small delivery office, which was understood to be in September.
A spokesman said: “Our small delivery office at the Pensford Post Office is combined to the new Paulton delivery office. Moving it to a larger, special facility will provide better working conditions for our officials and support a more efficient distribution service.
“Residents can be sure that deliveries will continue normally.”
A post office spokesman said that a post office -field manager was working with Mr. Patel to limit the “financial consequences of the movement. Ways to enlarge the business were also investigated.
They said: “We made our condolences for the tragic death of his father Kirit Patel for his tragic death in Air India Aircraft Accident. They showed that they were supported and worked very popular. “
