Post Offices

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Post Office Ltd </div> <div> says that by closing some post offices the remaining ones in an area will be strengthened and </div> <div> will stay in business. In October 2002 Parliament gave the go-ahead for a programme which </div> <div> involves the closure of up to 3000 urban post offices across the UK and investment in the </div> <div> remaining network.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d2f57db0.jpg" border=0 width="343" height="219" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d3157010.jpg" border=0 width="343" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Notting Hill (Westbourne Grove)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Damon Albarn</B>, <B>Angela Rippon</B>, <B>Ruby Wax</B>,<B>Tilda Swinton</B>, <B>Helen Fielding</B>, <B>Harold Pinter </B></div> <div> and <B>Tony Benn </B>were among thousands of locals who signed a petition calling for this branch to remain open. </div> <div> But.. without success....</div> <bR> <div> A Post Office spokesman said: "There are simply not enough customers to sustain the number of branches</div> <div>  in west London and if we took no action many would go broke and close anyway. </div> <bR> <div> "There is no financial case to retain the Notting Hill branch, either as directly managed or through a franchise </div> <div> as to do so would endanger the viability of other post office branches in the area." </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d37fa560.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="86" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> People in the Street, by David Hockney. Copyright: David Hockney      </div> <bR> <div> <B>David Hockney</B> and <B>Michael Horovitz</B> have produced a greetings card to  raise awareness about the plight</div> <div> of the post office in Westbourne Grove. Hockney, who used the post office when he lived nearby in the 1960s, </div> <div> has donated an ink and watercolour painting called People in the Street, which could be the corner where the</div> <div> post office is located. Horovitz has lived in the area for more than 40 years and was a regular user of the post </div> <div> office before its closure  recently- despite a two-month campaign by local residents to keep it open.  In the</div> <div>  poetry greeting, which is topped by a broken heart, he accuses the Post Office of<I> "ponceing on the cancer </I></div> <div> <I>of commercialism"</I> over the loss of "<I>this flower'd Grove's crown jewel"</I>.<I> "Here's barking at you, for dumping </I></div> <div> <I>thus our prime community resource/With such base grovelling to Mammon's ruthless course,"</I> he writes. </div> <div> He fears the building will be sold off as luxury flats, <I>"for the routine dross-market fate/Of yet another multisquillion</I></div> <div> <I>scoop for real-estate/Sharks".</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d3a4f5a0.jpg" border=0 width="79" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  The Lost Office campaign cards costing £2 each, or £15 for 10, are available from </div> <div> New Departures, c/o PO Box 9819, London, W11 2GQ.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </B><B><IMG SRC="1d33bcfa0.jpg" border=0 width="188" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d3534fa0.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d27fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B> </B><B><IMG SRC="1db8fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Croydon                                                      Crouch Hill</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1dbcf5d30.jpg" border=0 width="245" height="211" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B>   </B><B><IMG SRC="1dbdfbd00.jpg" border=0 width="251" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Dagenham                                                   Shoreditch</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2738f3710.jpg" border=0 width="243" height="369" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>East Acton </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#006699" FACE="Arial" ><B>(courtesy Sheri Weintraub)</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1dbffbab0.jpg" border=0 width="507" height="427" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Brixton</B></div> <div> <I>still open but for how long?</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.postwatch.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.postwatch.co.uk"><U><B>www.postwatch.co.uk</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="derelict_london_com.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London.com"><U><I><IMG SRC="3c896370.gif" border=0 width="150" height="55" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>