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document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Derek Wilkinson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">as i am disabled this is a service we must have and not from basingstoke.and will be not a good thing for the environment which we all need to take care of surely?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Nic Rose wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I\&#39;m happy to go to Whitchurch or to pay the 50p to pick it the item from Overton Post Office. Recently, however the postman seems to have taken to just abandoning parcels on my doorstep if I\&#39;m out. Thank you to my kind neighbours who often look after them and keep then dry for me. What happened to your sense of service, Royal Mail?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Fiona Foote wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">We feel the intention to close the Whitchurch Delivery Office is flawed on numerous grounds.  It will cause nothing but inconvenience, expense and delay not only to delivery staff but also to unfortanate customers. This closure should be investigated and re-considered at the highest level.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Andrew Saunders wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">i use this facility regularly as i am not always at home during the day to have to get to basingstoke will create problems and expense</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Davina Phillips wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Surely it\&#39;s right that people who live in the country have a local delivery office they can use instead of trekking into the towns or cities and fighting with the expensive parking or transport systems. I don\&#39;t think that townspeople would like it in reverse.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Noel Privett wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">You can see from the number of people signing this petition how bad it would be for Whitchurch if the sorting office closed. We\&#39;ve fought it before, and were promised it would stay open. Don\&#39;t go back on your word; we\&#39;ll only fight it again.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Claire Isbester wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is a short sighted proposal, bad for individuals, bad for workers, bad for the community, and bad for the environment. Don\&#39;t do it.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Chrissie Ferngrove wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">People will not pick up undelivered mail from Basingstoke!  The B/S sorting office will have a lot of mail to return to senders!!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Glynn Lewis wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">At a time when we are being encouraged (care for the environment and the most expensive fuel in Europe) not to use our cars un-necessarily, where we have a large population of Whitchurch  citizens senior and otherwise who either walk everywhere or where this is not possible at least try to support local businesses, this idea is both counter productive and eerily draconian.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Maggie Donovan wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is an important business facility as well as social focal point for Whitchurch and surrounding areas.  <br />Its closure would mean a further loss of service for those unable to use public transport and without private transport.  <br />Its closure would mean an increase in daily traffic as delivery staff make extra journeys in order to collect our mail.  <br />Its closure would mean an increase in traffic as Post Office customers have to travel in excess of twenty miles in order to collect their post and return home - and for those who work away from the area an unwelcome pressure to drive to Basingstoke on a Saturday morning in order to collect mail.  <br /><br />Keep Whitchurch Delivery Office open - please. Reduce the carbon footprint; retain an essential service; value Post Office customers.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Carolyn Sheffield wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please, please keep the Whitchurch Mail Delivery Office OPEN.  It plays an important role in our community which is being constantly hit by closures such as this.  The people of Whitchurch would all be grateful if this office was kept open.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Nicola Graham wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">For the whole community it is vital that the mail delivery office is kept open in Whitchurch.  Communities are being ruined by closures such as these.  Please listen to everyone, and keep this office open.  Many thanks.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Alison Allen wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Don\&#39;t close our local delivery office! We should not be punished for living in a small rural town. It is an invaluable service for our community.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Karen Baker wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I work from home and therefore receive business parcels at home.  It would be very inconvenient and bad for the environment to have to drive to Basingstoke if I am out when a parcel is delivered</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Stephen Furlonger wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This will be inconvenient for the younger members of the community and severely limiting for the significant elderly population.<br />Whitchurch has a thriving business community who also rely on the services of this office.<br />Surely a better solution can be found than to leave people out of work and a building empty in the village.<br />True, there will be many people unaffected by this closure; but many more for whom it will be a great loss. Surely public service should cater for the interests of the majaority.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Richard Cooper wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please don\&#39;t make a short term financial decision: think about the benefits of the community the sorting office serves and let you concience make the right choice for the people of Whitchurch and the long term future of the Post Office.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Ben North wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Where will it stop?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Bianca Drummond wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Keep the sorting office, don\&#39;t take a bonus...<br />Greed is a sin you know.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Raymond Westbrook wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Why are you making things more difficult for our customers, When we should be improving our service.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Neil Auchterlonie wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The Whitchurch Sorting Office is an important part of the fabric of the local community.  This decision by Royal Mail ignores the importance of that community, placing corporate needs above those of the customers to whom they should be providing a service.  This shows poor judgement on the part of Royal Mail, and we respectfully request that they reverse this decision.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jamie Iveson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Mr Adam Crozier Chief Executive Officer !!!!!! The scottish bloke who f-cked up the Football Association now intends on ruining the towns postal system! bang our of order! I hope he gets crabs! I can take one hiding but this takes it too far. How is an oap expected to get from whitchurch to priestly road, thats 2 bus rides and and hour of travelling and walking. banana\&#39;s!!!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Pauline Choppen wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">i own the wedding shop in whichurch and so if i miss the post the sorting office is very important even though i live in basingstoke this is still not easy due to their opening times !!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Paul Allaker wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">2 buses and a long walk to pick up a parcel if you haven\&#39;t got a car? Even if you have a car 22 unecessary miles and an hours journey? Crazy.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Pauline Sparks wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The closure of the Whitchurch sorting office will be a false economy.  The postmen will have to go to Basingstoke to start their shift - the post will come to Whitchurch in vans along with the postmen\&#39;s bikes etc (but not the postmen apparently, who will need to use their cars again) - the vans will go back to Basingstoke - the vans will have to go to Whitchurch again to pick up bikes etc - the postmen will have to drive again to Basingstoke and later back home to Whitchurch, four trips for them in all. Something wrong with someone thinking it through I think.  How much does the post office think it is going to save with this exercise.  The amount of cars driving to Basingstoke to pick up undelivered mail will be phenomenal.  Please don\&#39;t let it happen!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Alan Birks wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">When will royal mail begin to understand that cutting services is simply cutting their own throats,or perhaps this is their long term plan anyway to prepare for easy national privatisation</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Hugh James wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">What happened to keeping the carbon footprint down!? People driving to Basingstoke to pick up post sounds like the opposite of what should be happening. Also it can\&#39;t be good for Whitchurch traders. If you\&#39;ve gone to Basingstoke for the post people will reasonably say you may as well shop there!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Kenneth Dodd wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">crozier, you have ruined a once great company, sooner you clear of the better. leave the post office alone</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Barry Taylor wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">If permitted, I specify delivery by Royal Mail as an other failed delivery means I have to travel to Basingstoke - or even farther - to collect which is a total waste of my time and money.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Dave Wiggins wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Come on keep it open! You get a big enough bonus, prove your worth it. You seem to have cocked up many working practices & issues within Royal Mail why not do something thats right for a change!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Mike Stead wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">While RM no doubt have their reasons for this closure, the consultation process has been none-existent. Public feeling is running high, and we feel cheated. The Tesco Post Office (open at less than convenient hours for London workers) will not suffice as a collection point. For people needing urgent parcels, they will be forced to go to Basingstoke. RM are not accounting for the impact on the B3400, an already busy road. Please put the closure on hold, while a full consultation is entered into with the community.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">David Bibby wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Use some of your Bonus to keep this place Open Mr Crozier!<br />This office is needed for Local people, we dont want to wait a 24+ Hours for something to be redelivered when we are able to just pop down the road to get it normally the same day.<br />Its a Local service for Local people and should be Kept that way, If it looses Royal mail money or not! You make enough profits in other parts of Royal Mail to keep the smaller places open! The Goverment should sack you but they are just as bad!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Wendy Helsby wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The closure of the post office sorting office would entail a great deal of difficulty not only for Whitchurch residences but for all the surrounding villages. Whitchurch is a central hub between Andover and Basingstoke; Winchester and Newbury. To move this facility to Basingstoke would weigh yet again the Borough\&#39;s introspection and bias to Basingstoke and by a process of attrition marginalise the rural wards. The increase in single occupancy car journeys if nothing else would be enormous. If Basingstoke is serious about the claims it makes in its magazines then the council should be lobbying the PO to withdraw this proposal.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Richard Mattock wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I think it will cost royal mail more money in the long run with having to pay the employees traveling expenses,more vans to ship employees backwards and forwards from Basingstoke to Whitchurch and back again as different employees work at different speeds so they will have to get backwards and forwards,at diferent times could mean employees having to book overtime (extra cost)all this when royal mail is suppose to be losing revenue.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Debbie Lister wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">as a working mother with a family often ordering items over the intenet I often find myself having to collect parcels. It is outrageous that I will now potentially have to do an 18 mile round trip to do so. Please keep whitchurch open!!!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Christina Teal wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Closure of the Whitchurch Mail Delivery Office is a major inconvenience to a vast number of local residents who cannot easily get to the \&#39;outskirts\&#39; of Basingstoke. It would also mean that extra journeys are made which is a negative environmental impact. The community has not been consulted about this and it is a service which is very valued.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jill Bunting wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It would be a grave mistake to shut down this office. A journey of approx. 40 minutes to Basingstoke to collect parcels etc would be very inconvenient and invironmentally unfriendly.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Hilary Bridgman wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Closing the Whitchurch sorting office would be a bad decision for the people who live in Whitchurch and the surrounding villages.   It is a valuable asset to our communities.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Sarah Crean wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Mr Crozier  I think you know perfectly well the suggested closure of Whitchurch will NEVER be \&#39;mutually conventient\&#39; in any way to Royal Mail customers.  We have so far, received an excellent Royal Mail Service and would like to keep it that way.  If you do not understand this I am very happy to explain it in more detail.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Grace Foot wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please do not close this local office.  It would be very inconvenient and bad for the environment to cause extra journeys to Basingstoke.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Christine Tims wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I don\&#39;t fancy trotting to Basingstoke to pick up anything that cannot be delivered immediately.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Brian Tims wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">We much value the local service.  If Royal Mail is incapable of providing it - perhaps it deserves to loose its monopoly!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Patricia Heath wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Eventually presumably, there will be a charge for people asking for a second delivery of an item. This is why I want the Whitchurch sorting office to stay open.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Graham Finlayson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is typical of high handed actions of the Royal Mail, showing total disregard for the customers. It is easy to see why this can no longer be considered a \"service\" and why other providers are are better able to supply the service.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Andrew Reeves-Hall wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Keep up the pressure to save the Whitchurch Sorting Office!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">M Le&#39;warne wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">they are very helpful and always make sure that you do get your parcels and mail and I thought to be green was to cut down on car fuel trips which going to basingstoke would cause just to get a small packet what next one phone call fits all and you never speak to someone who realises where you live in relation to where you have to go to collect the parcel.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Glenys Masters wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The closure of this delivery office will cause huge inconvenience to the local people.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Myfanwy Whitehead wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Surely closing Whitchurch Delivery Office is a false economy.  I have just travelled there from Overton to pick up a parcel and would hesitate to go all the way to Basingstoke.  Businesses will suffer.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Sarah Ross wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I am dismayed to hear that the Whitchurch Office is closing. I would like to add my voice to those who wish to keep it open. Travelling to Basingstoke to collect parcels etc will be extremely inconvenient especially with restricted opening hours and for those of us who work set times.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Harriet Titcomb wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">WE NEED THIS SERVICE, WITHOUT IT MAY WILL BE GREATLY INCONVIENCED</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Gould Sam wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It is important to retain this rural service.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Martin Spooner wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The postal service just gets worse and worse. How can people without cars get to Basingstoke to collect parcels. Ridiculous!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">John Hartop wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It is outrageous that you are proposing to close the Whitchurch Office and then force us to travel to Basingstoke to collect mail. What next close Basingstoke and make us collect from Reading. It is hardly surprising that we have to collect as the time of your deliveries has moved much closer to the afternoon as your service has diminished. If we are forced to collect by your extremely poor service, we should only be expected to travel to Whitchurch to collect. The times of opening of Whitchurch already leave a lot to be desired but that it better than no service at all.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Julie Dinsdale wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It would be very inconvenient and expensive to drive into Basingstoke to collect parcels. Why change a service that is obviously well run, well used and highly regarded by the local community?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">John Markham wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I am extremely disappointed that Royal Mail are closing our Delivery Office with no consultation. Whitchurch is a town of over 4000 inhabitants and to have no local facility to collect packages is crazy. To drive 20+ minutes to basingstoke to collect packages is not a viable alternative and what about the waste of fuel etc</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Susan Carter wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is another example of the dumbing down of services and the inability to understand rural matters. It seems that only systems count, not the people they are designed to serve.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jim Hutchings wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Absolutely imperative that we retain not only the excellent services of Whitchurch,but all our Post offices as a whole</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Gary Dennis wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This appears to be a very under handed closure with out consultation and debate. This facility should and must remain open</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Denyse Coles wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Whitchurch has many older people who carry out all their business within the town. Having to go to Basingstoke or pay a fee to receive mail, would be onerous and expensive. This proposal makes a non-sense of encouraging the town\&#39;s small businesses and those people who work from home. Please do not degrade this service when we are trying so hard to revitalise the town.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">David Walker wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I work each day in London and as a consequence I am not at home to receive mail which has to be signed for or is physically too large for my letterbox.<br /><br />The proposed closure of the Whitchurch sorting office will mean that I will have to make the journey to Basingstoke on a Saturday (which I normally avoid) to collect any packages.<br /><br />Might it be possible for undelivered packages for addresses in Overton to be placed at the Overton PO to enable collection locally thus reducing the overall carbon footprint of the mail delivery/collection operation?<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />David Walker</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jeanette Higgitt wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">How ridiculous.  As an Overton resident, it\&#39;s bad enough having to go to Whitchurch to collect mail but having to collect it in Basingtstoke is totally unacceptable.  How are the old age pensioners etc. who can\&#39;t drive meant to get their mail.  It\&#39;s all very well saying that they can have it re-delivered but what if it is something important that they can\&#39;t wait another day for?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">David Llewellyn wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Not only do my family live in Overton, regularly having to make trips to Whitchurch Sorting Office to collect parcels, packages etc, i also am fortunate enough to spend some time each week working from home. it seems incredible that in todays worls, where we are actively trying to reduce our carbon footprints, you should be even considering closing a local facitity such as Whitchurch Sorting Office. Surely the time has come to put aside the drive for profit at all cost and return to the old values of customer service.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Peter Tomlin wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This office is important to both the local populace and the businesses within this community. Transport to the Basingstoke Sorting Office is costly and inconvenient. I was taught that the way to run a business is to look after customer requirements first, second and third. Seems like another case of Senior Management Bonuses are now first, second and third priorities!! Will the Post Office Management listen?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Virginia Phillips wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please don\&#39;t shut Whitchurch sorting office - it\&#39;s a valuable resource for our community and the most effective environmental solution.  Imagine the CO2 emissions from all the extra journeys into Basingstoke...</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Kate Edwards wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The delivery office at whitchurch provides a valuable service, not only for the people of whitchurch but for those of surrounding rural community. many of them elderly and unable to travel far.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Cousins Heather wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It is very inconvenient to drive to Basingstoke to collect parcels. It would also cost more in fuel and parking.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Ann Drury wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The Post Office provides a major focal point in Whitchurch. As a community we feel we are a very poor relation to Basingstoke in terms of facilities and the sorting office gives us a good service. Surely it is in Royal Mail\&#39;s interest to maintain the positive \&#39;feelgood\&#39; factor we have here rather than alienate a local community which may well turn to other providers.<br /> It is difficult to get to Priestley Road by public transport and costly in terms of time, money and carbon footprint to travel by car.<br /> If the sorting office is closed in spite of our protests surely it would be possible to set up a means of collection locally, perhaps from the post office counter.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Steven Blunden wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">another part of village life will go. not only the local pubs are dissapearing the post office is as well.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">David Bowyer wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The excellent service provided by Whitchurch and particularly by our own postman is greatly valued here and the proposed move to the sorting office in Basinsgtoke is unlikely to improve the service and will certainly cause great inconveneince for all of us from time to time - especially for the elderly. Pleae think again</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Judy Arthur wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Not being able to collect parcels at Whitchurch but having to make a 20 mile round journey to do this is just ridiculous. Carbon footprint comes to mind. Although at present it is said that free delivery to the house is possible, one wonders how long that service will operate!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Catherine Harwood wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please don\&#39;t close this sorting office.  It will be hugely inconvenient to travel to Basingstoke and necessitate more unecessary car journeys.  Alternative delivery times are of no help to those out at work all day.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">William Bishop wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please do not shut the Whitchurch sorting office. We are a rural community and rely on access to Whitchurch local delivery office. It also provides a strong sense of community with the delivery men playing an important link with the community who they know well. They also provide the eyes and ears in terms of security.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Fred Clark wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">AS A PENSIONER I WILL FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO GO TO BASINGSTOKE TO COLLECT ANY PARCELS<br />AND VERY EXPENSIVE</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Louise Oakton wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The closure would certainly negatively impact the small business within our community</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Lindsay Ferguson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE SORTING OFFICE AT WHICHURCH CLOSED</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Martin Watson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I wish to protest about the continual degrading of village life of which this proposal is just another example. We need to protect our rural environment by retaining as many services and jobs as possible in the local area.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">James Crosbie dawson wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The closure of this sorting office will cause us a great deal of inconvenience.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Diana Wainman wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I, and our wonderful postmen, would be devastated to lose Whitchurch as our local sorting office.  I wonder whether our post will be as efficiently and early delivered as we have had for the past 40 years.  Please, please do not change if there is any likelyhood at all that the service will deteriorate.   I am absolutely sure it will be far more difficult for the postmen, and you depend on them for the efficient continuation of the service.  Diana Wainman.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Simon Wainman wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The postal service in the Whitchurch and Overton area has been excellent for many years.  Why on earth dismantle something of which you can feel proud and put in a service which the public don\&#39;t want and which will almost certainly prove inferior.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Gillian Bilton wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The sorting office is an important local amenity, and travel to Basingstoke to collect parcels is an unacceptable alternative. For working people, redelivery on subsequent days is no alternative at all. Whitchurch is sufficiently highly populated to deserve a sorting office of its own.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">John Macmillan OBE wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">The Whitchurch Sorting Office has always provided us with a fantastic service and it’s terrible that anyone should even consider closing the office. As a small business we very much value the service offered and would happily pay more to maintain the status quo. Travelling to Basingstoke to collect mail would significantly impinge on the efficiency of our business.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Trevor Froome wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I do not want this office to close. It would be inconvenient to go to Basingstoke to pick up parcels</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jonathan Portal wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is surely a poorly thought through closure that will only harm Royal Mail\&#39;s reputation?  Put closure on hold, have full consultation with local community and get buy in BEFORE making unilateral cuts.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Peter Harrison wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">This is a particularly good sorting office which delivers regularly on schedule and the correct mail.To close it would severely upset the local community.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Mervyn Ford wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">It can be difficult enough already for residence of Overton to collect undelivered mail from Whitchurch, why make life even harder?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Brian John Shadwell wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Due to my adge it would be very dificult to get to preistly Rd.Basingstoke, without personal transport,</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Rachel Crockford wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">many people living in and around whitchurch need local services to remain in place.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Ruth Williams wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">please keep this office open - don\&#39;t remove a valuable resource from a thriving local community. Centralising operations may save you money but it compromises convenience for your customers - please, not another nail in the coffin for good service...</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Justan Peters wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">we need our post office its a community</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jeff Dawe wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">we need to keep whitchurch sorting office</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Charles Cardiff wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">There has been no consultation. The proposals for collection of post requiring a signature are unaccepatble and inadequate. They add costs to the customer in yterms of travel to Basingstoke or payment for collection fromWhitchurch Post Office. Those who rely on collecting all their post from the sorting office are not taken into account.  The extra travel by the public as well as the staff is adding cost and is environmentally illegitimate.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Anthony Morris wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I am registered disabled.  I can park right by the Whitchurch office but the Basingstoke post office is difficult for a disabled person to get to.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Ronald Senior wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Closing would be blow in this village</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Sheila Locke wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Everyone is affected by the credit crunch but ou have more resources than the older people who may have to travel up to15 miles to other sorting offices.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Gill Smith wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Don\&#39;t do it! This is a valuable resource and important part of life in this area.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Rachel Kerr wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please do not close this office!</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Sarah Snell wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please don\&#39;t close this sorting office.  It serves a large, disperse community some of whom would find it very difficult to reach the sorting office in Basingstoke and for the rest of us it would be a massive inconvenience.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Graham Lambert wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Why is there a constant need to reduce, rather than improve services? Does it never concern you that you are causing a great deal of inconvenience?</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Tracy Barber wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">I value Whitchurch post office and I am against its closure</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Jason Clark wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">Please keep the collections going as it is essential to the local area.</div></div><br />'); 
document.write('<div class="petitionComment"><div class="petitionHeader">Deborah Crook wrote:</div> <div class="petitionContent">A closure of this kind would be a great blow to the local community.</div></div><br />'); 
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