Post Offices bosses open special outreach service in Ulverston

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The Post office will be closed for 14 working days while the work is carried out

POST Office bosses have opened a special outreach service for customers in Ulverston while the County Square outlet is being refurbished.

Company bosses have agreed to provide an outreach service in the Flannery Centre attached to St Mary of Furness RC church for six days during the temporary closure.

Furness MP John Woodcock, who campaigned to save Ulverston Post Office, wrote to the company chief executive seeking provision for older customers during the refurbishments from March 21 until Friday, April 6.


Mr Woodcock said: “The office will be closed for 14 working days while the work is carried out and I knew that was a worry for some of our most vulnerable neighbours who might find it difficult to draw their pensions from other outlets miles from the town centre.

“I wrote to the chief executive asking for alternate arrangements to be made and I am glad that we have obtained a positive response.


“The Post Office has agreed to provide an outreach service in the Flannery Centre and that should make things a bit easier for the older customers in the interim.”

Ulverston Labour town councillors and party members took the matter up with the MP in the first instance.

The campaign to save Ulverston Post Office involved the collection of almost 8,000 signatures which Mr Woodcock presented to the House of Commons last April.

On November 28 last year the Post Office said the threat of closure had been withdrawn; the County Square outlet would remain open with Peall and Hughes Ltd taking over its running.

Existing staff were given the opportunity of transferring to the new franchise under the same terms, conditions and wages and there will be no compulsory redundancies.


All current services will be maintained – with the addition of extra hours on Saturdays.

The Flannery Centre outreach service will be available from 1.30pm to 4.30pm on March 22, 23, 27 and 29 and on April 3 and 5.