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Join our
fight for a new post office
• The post office in Belsize Village has now
been closed. Last week local users gave an affectionate farewell
to Jay Chauhan, who had served the Belsize community for 25
years as its manager.
In recent years he was commuting daily from his East Midlands
home. If only the highly salaried managers at Post Office Ltd
could show one tenth of his commitment to providing a decent
service.
Only days after the closure Belsize village is noticeably quieter.
Its post office provided an incentive to visit other shops nearby,
busy people combining several errands in one trip. We suspect
that some of the trade is going elsewhere. The local pub is
also disappearing. Is ours to become a ghost village?
It is clear that the Belsize community needs the kind of service
it used to enjoy; a two-counter Belsize branch on Haverstock
Hill and a one-counter Belsize village branch – the two
offices which served these two distinct catchment areas up to
2002.
We propose a non-party Post Office Action Group that will campaign
for both branches, and we should be very pleased to hear from
any resident interested in joining.
Alan Brownjohn, Gene Adams, George Tardios
Belsize Park, NW3
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