Jill, Alan and Hamish have been advised that the local Post Office would seem to have plans to close down the branch in the St Nicholas Centre, Sutton sometime next year. Cllr. Ruth Dombey, leader of Sutton Council has already spoken to the staff and they are understandably very concerned.

Cllr. Ruth Dombey has been asked to speak at a public meeting at the Salvation Army Hall in Benhill Avenue, Sutton this Friday, 14th June 6-8pm. She haven’t been involved in the organisation or the publicity for the meeting but as we are concerned that not many people know about it so we thought we would post the details.

We think it would be a huge mistake for this post office to close. There are already long queues at both our main post offices and this would just make it worse. It is quite a long uphill walk from the bottom of the High Street to Grove Road and the idea that this would be the only post office for central Sutton is just crazy.

Please feel free to attend the meeting. It is being organised by the Post Office staff union (CWU) and is open to the public.