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Collection point for Royal Mail parcels From: David Rundle Date: Jun 24 07:10 UTC Short link
It was a sad day when the Sorting Office closed. My understanding is -- as
was mentioned at the time -- Headington PO (which now, of course, serves an
even wider catchment) is simply too small to stock all the parcels. If
that's not the case, then great. But that's the first issue to clarify.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Wilkinson" <ruthewilkinson@googlemail.com> To: <oxford-hm@forums.e-democracy.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [HMNF] Collection point for Royal Mail parcels > As a city councillor for Headington Ward, I am happy to contribute to > the debate on postal services. > > Forum members may be interested to know that I have personally spent > more than ten hours on the doorsteps in Iffley and Rose Hill > collecting signatures on a petition to keep Iffley Post Office open. > The saving achieved by closing the only service available to people > who live in that area was just £4,000 a year. I hope that Headington > residents taking part in this email debate supported that campaign by > signing the petition and writing to their MP and the Royal Mail. The > Oxford East MP helped us out for an hour getting people to sign the > petition and posing for press photos but, sadly, he subsequently voted > through the closure in Parliament a week or so later. > > As I understand it, an undelivered parcel is returned to Littlemore > and held there for collection pending receipt of a telephone message > or postcard advising of a more suitable date when the parcel can be > re-delivered free of charge. The suggestion to make Headington a > central location for undelivered parcels would mean that storage space > and admin resources would be needed in two locations rather than one, > and these additional costs would need to be justified. > > I am curious to know why there is a particular need in Headington for > this enhancement of service, at a time when insufficient money can be > found to keep post offices open in a significant number of areas > elsewhere in Oxfordshire. Perhaps the first stage in any campaign > would be to find out what volume of parcel traffic is specific to the > Headington area, as opposed to other areas of Oxford, and whether > Headington Post Office could cope with storing this in terms of space. > > The reason given for this proposed change in previous email > correspondence appears to be to save the 'huge hassle' of collecting > undelivered items from elsewhere, and this is true for people who live > in any area other than the one in which the collections office is > located. From a wider perspective, and to some extent to play Devil's > advocate here, residents in more socially and economically deprived > areas of Oxford who possess no local post office at all and who have > no bus service to any alternative post office other than the one in > Oxford City Centre at a cost of approximately £3.00 return may well > envy the current level of service enjoyed by those who live in > Headington, and would undoubtedly see any improvement in a > comparatively more affluent area as a further example of social > injustice. > > One of the most useful resources that could be invoked in any campaign > to improve services in Headington is the City's core strategy which is > being worked on at the moment. This affirms Headington's role as the > district centre for the North East of Oxford. It is possible that a > reasoned case could be made for post offices in the district centres > to become parcel collection points: this would need to be fully costed > in a business plan for consideration by Royal Mail. > > Ruth Wilkinson > Liberal Democrat City Councillor for Headington > > Ruth Wilkinson > Headington, Oxford > Info about Ruth Wilkinson: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/4sPZdZFjHWvbwjqVXjKjFk > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/4E7XKL3zATR7QQLoetK0CS > ----------------------------------------- > To post, send your message to: <email obscured> > To leave or for daily digest, type "unsubscribe" or "digest on," > in subject line and send to: <email obscured> > > More info about Headington & Marston Neighbourhood Forum: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/oxford-hm > > E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules > ----------------------------------------- > Technical assistance thanks to our friends at http://OnlineGroups.Net >