Why are alot of post offices closing?

Question

Is it because of modern technology?

Such as the internet?

Answer 1

Because management.Adam Crozier is getting

£3 million with bonus.

Answer 2

It is the requirement for Supermarket-space.

Stop posting letters, and get gorging.

Answer 3

It is probably because there is no money to pay for their upkeep (employee payments, building payments, ect) even with all this technology you are still going to need people to deliver mail (like bills, letters (people without internet), home packages [or store bought] ) and so on.

Answer 4

Yes, and because supermarkets are eating into their "other" trade, and parcel carriers are (successfully) competing for their business the Post Office can't operate at a profit any more, never mind a decent one. Businesses have their own franking machine, you can buy stamps at a supermarket (but who wants to send a letter with email out here?), you can get your pension money paid direct to your account, and you can tax your car online. What's the point of a post office then? For a parcel or two? Nope. I'm surprised there are any, frankly. I suspect pretty soon there won't be.

Answer 5

In plain English, the Post Office belongs to the UK.gov - it wants to sell it off - to turn the PO into a private enterprise.  It's already a LIMITED company, which it most certainly was not in my youth back in the 1940s and 1950s.

The PO goes back a long way.  The British Post Office is actually 350 years old. . . . .

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; The new British post office, a ...... The new British post office, a 350-year-old company separated by an ... When the Post Office Group in Britain changed its name to Consignia last year, ...

http://www.query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...

My partner is a former employee of the GPO (General Post Office) and worked for them as a telegrapher back in the 1950s and 1960s and then on for BT in another capacity later.

What's most amazing from my point of view as an old telegrapher myself, is that the GPO transatlantic telegraph cables and those running to the old Empire - India etc., are all still in place.  Literally hook up a telegraph key and a car battery and you could send morse code down these cables.

Ians Telephones - GPO history1850 First submarine telegraph cable laid across the English Channel. ... 1956 Opening of the first Transatlantic Telephone Cable. ...

http://www.btinternet.com/~ians.telephon...

Two high-speed morse telegraphers beat sms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t041g4X-a...

Answer 6

Why  Post Offices are closing.

Yes I agree modern technology has reduced the need to use the post office.

& here are some possible contributory causes,

1`~~usage of the postal services has generally declined ~~with a large part of the population using email  instead of ~~letter writing.

2~~Cell  phones reduce dependance on post offices to make calls from.

2~~Rising costs of running postal buildings .& postal fees.

3- Excessive time to send & receive letters by post.

Answer 7

No down to money and profits.   post offices are losing a lot of the business they used to  do... TV  licences  etc.  And other     things on tne way...   No one has pension books any more ,  so no need to go to PO   The PO savings bank is threatened with closure.   So   some offices a  re sited in  supermarkets etc.  and others are closed.  So   many    rural village   general stores *** Post Office will have the post office bit closed.   Problem is  to where to go  to    send packages   or to pay bills etc,  Handy to draw money  when nearest bank is a way away.  But is an ongoing trend I think

Answer 8

Not at all it's because the bosses at the top want to improve their annual bonuses by saving money so they close shops down.

It's happening where i work right now a new boss has came in and he has been told if you save X amount of money we will give you X amount in bonus, so he is doing the easiest thing and managing people out instead of cutting back on areas that waste money.

Answer 9

No because the greedy boss's at the top want to save money.

Answer 10

Once upon a time there was a strange dictator called Margaret Thatcher who wanted to take any power away from ordinary people.  Mrs Thatcher decided to divide people by whatever means she could, for together we stand, divided we fall.

During the Thatcher years many of the businesses that belonged to the people, paid for by the people, were sold off to the few who could afford it.  Strange that Mrs Thatcher thought she owned these businesses and had a right to sell them?

Once upon a time quite alot of money circulated back and forth between the government and the people.  Now most money goes to those who happened to be 'clued up' or 'in the old school tie club' during the eighties working 'in the city'.

So today, the post offices, gas, water, electricity, housing, transport, even the surgeries are going to be owned by share holders.  All I can say is, beware if your illness does not make money.