MP challenges Government for answers on Wotton SO

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MP challenges Government for answers on Wotton

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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP yesterday took the opportunity to question the Government about their plans for the Sorting Office at Wotton-under-Edge, during a debate on the future of Royal Mail.

The MP told the Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs, Pat McFadden MP that:

"It (Royal Mail) proposes to close a sorting office at Wotton-under-Edge, a small market town in my constituency in which the Sorting Office is a major employer. Royal Mail has refused to attend any public meetings or give a business case."

Mr Clifton-Brown then went on to ask the Minister if he felt that Royal
Mail should be obliged to explain to his constituents why it was taking such a step.

Unfortunately, the Mr McFadden failed to give a direct answer to the
question to the disgust of Mr Clifton-Brown.

"The Minister was aware that I would question him on this Sorting Office and yet he could not shine a single bit of light on the situation, referring only to the company as a whole without consideration of each individual office"

"Worse still is his failure to answer on the issue of a consultation. This is symptomatic of a Government who has been happy to oversee the slow decline of Postal Services in the Country and who doesn't care about jobs, even as the country slides deeper into a recession."

The MP has arranged a meeting with Royal Mail later in the month where he will continue to press for a future for the Sorting Office at Wotton-under-Edge.

[dvbuk55]

When he says a small market town he isn't kidding - the latest census shows a population of some 5500 or about 11 deliveries and the sorting? They must realise that there are many many offices this size that will have to be absorbed into larger offices - it may not suit the employees of these places but it is a question of a scale of economy and they aren't economical. Has anyone heard anything about those three who went out from the garden shed issue?

[Big Daz]

Dvbuk 55

I think this is the problem more than anything else.

Royal Mail has refused to attend any public meetings or give a business case.

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Dvbuk 55

I think this is the problem more than anything else.

Royal Mail has refused to attend any public meetings or give a business case.

TBH I'm not surprised they won't come to the table - take the case of the Shed Three - a lost cause if I ever saw one and the reaction - 3 people go out for a week - now multiply that by however many 10,20,30, 40, 50 person offices there are and I wouldn't want to talk about it either - it's not just the postmen you are looking at managerial staff too in the larger offices.