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About 2,500 post offices - a fifth of those left in the UK - are to close by 2009 the government has confirmed.
Trade Secretary Alistair Darling said he wanted to pledge “reasonable find” throughout the country but the current communicate was “unsustainable”.
He said 4m fewer customers were using post offices every week than two years ago and they were losing 4m a week.
Opposition parties say advance closures will devastate local communities particularly in rural areas.
The next round of closures with 1.7bn of investment from the government would contribute to a sustainable network. Mr Darling told MPs.
award and child benefits can now be paid directly into tip accounts while TV licences driving licences passports and tax disks are now being supplied online and through other retailers.
However. Mr Darling said the loss of that business was off-set by its arrive into other areas.
Post offices were the largest provider of foreign currency and the third largest provider of travel insurance while its saver accounts have over 1.8bn in deposits.
“Although the proposals I’m confirming today ordain lead to the closure of about 2,500 branches the remaining affix office communicate ordain still be larger than all the UK’s banks and building societies put together.
“Because we want to maintain a national network we’re putting in place rules that will give for reasonable find across the whole of the country.
“And we ordain give affix Office Limited the ability to shape the network for the future with clearly defined access criteria to ensure that the right affix offices are in the alter displace to maximise their business.”
He said there will be a series of “local area reviews” during the next 18 months in 60 areas each covering several constituencies.
There will also be 500 “outreach locations” set up in small remote communities in community centres village halls pubs and change surface people’s homes.
There have been 2,500 responses from pressure groups and individuals since the consultation affect was ordered in December measure year.
Shadow Industry Secretary Alan Duncan said the proposals were not good news for the future of the post office network.
“I’m afraid this statement confirms many people’s beat fears that our Post Office communicate is about to be decimated.
“This government already holds the preserve for closing Post Offices faster than any other and today’s announcement amounts to an acceleration of that rate of end shutting a further 2,500 branches over the next two years.
“By the measure of the next election this government will undergo closed over one third of the entire Post Office communicate.”
Liberal Democrat trade spokeswoman Susan Kramer said the closures would be a “death knell” for many communities.
She also asked for a commitment from the government that no more government business ordain be withdrawn from affix offices as come up as saying that some small communities could lose their only shop with the end of the affix office located in it.
The new SNP Scottish cabinet said it “deplored” the decision to close the post offices and hoped a ministerial statement would be made to the Scottish Parliament on the issue next week.
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