As you have probably heard by now, the local post office in Tintern is under threat, as well other offices in Devauden and Mathern.
We are fighting hard to save our post offices but we need your help to put pressure on the government.
As you have probably heard by now, the local post office in Tintern is under threat, as well other offices in Devauden and Mathern.
We are fighting hard to save our post offices but we need your help to put pressure on the government.
Post Office Limited propose to give us an ‘outreach’ service of a van two mornings a week on Mondays and Fridays.
The van will be parked in the lay-by across from Stella bookshop on the main road - close to the latest landslip.
We all know this is hardly the safest place!
Over the last few years, the Labour Government has taken services, like paying for your TV licence, away from post offices. This is the reason why post offices have struggled to make a profit.
Rather than undoing its own mess, the government is forcing the Post Office to close 2,500 branches. We are seeing the destruction of a village post office network in this country.
The most vulnerable in our communities, such as the elderly and those without transport, will suffer because of these post office closures.
We have been badly let down by the Labour Government.
They just don’t know how we live in the countryside.
Our post office in the village and the others in Monmouthshire are under threat because the government failed to support them.
The Liberal Democrats want to invest £2 billion in rebuilding the Post Office network.
Lib Dems in the Welsh Assembly have been pushing the government to re-establish the fund to give more support to rural post offices in Wales.
There is a very easy way that you can help the campaign:
Sign the on-line petition. Please click on the link below. get frineds, family and co-workers to sign and then send it back to us at no cost to you using our FREEPOST address.
We will do everything we can to keep village post offices open.
I, the undersigned, oppose the plans to close Tintern Post Office. We believe that Post Offices like ours provide a vital service to our community and the Wye Valley and that the Government should invest in the future of the network.
How is the campaign going?
Martin and the Wye Valley Focus Team delivered a letter to every house in the village and the surrounding area in the Wye Valley.
Hundreds of signatures have been collected.
And it is at moments like these, that you understand the strength of local feeling and the wide area that the post office serves.
People have collected signatures outside the school gates in Llandogo!
People from Trellech Grange, Hewesfield, Brockweir, Catbrook, The Cot, Llanishen, Llandogo and Whitebrook are supporting the campaign.
If the post office in Tintern closes then there will be no Post Office network left in the Wye Valley between Chepstow and Monmouth.
