Sad Day For Rugby
June 30, 2005 7:06 PM
Cllrs. Jess Upstone & Glenda Allanach outside Rugby Post Office
Post Office boss, Peter Mylchreest, has written to Rugby councillor Glenda Allanach to confirm that despite all the letters, petitions and other comments they have received the Post Office will go ahead with its plans for Rugby. The current Crown Post Office in Albert Street will be handed over to supermarket chain Primeco on 18 July 2005.
10 year guarantee:
Following the meeting between Jeremy Wright MP and Liberal Democrat councillors Allanach and Upstone at Coton House, the Post Office has made one concession. Campaigners have extracted a promise from the Corporation that a sub-post office will be run on the Albert Street site for another five years and in the centre of Rugby for a further five years after that. For what it is worth this means that there is a guarantee that Rugby town centre will have a sub-post office up until 2015. After that who knows.
Sadness:
Cllr Glenda Allanach said: "This is a sad day for Rugby and for the Post Office's loyal staff at their Rugby Branch. Our town will no longer have a crown post office. Once again the government is cutting back on the level of service we get. The results will ripple through our community. This probably means that if the government succeeds in its plans to make us all carry identity cards we shall have to queue up in Coventry to get them."
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