AGAINST
AS a member of Royal Mail's work-force who lives outside the city limits I have to travel 13 miles each day, six days 'a week. I have done this for 27 years.
Not only this, I have been getting up at 4am and not returning home until after 2pm. I have now reached a point in my life where I thought I could start to plan a less-demanding timetable and think about retiring.
No chance! My only income will be coming to an end in 2008,with a further eight years' mortgage to pay and no way to pay it!!
I am one of many who cannot re-locate to Swindon even if I wanted to.
We are to be encouraged to use public transport. How do I get from Slimbridge to Swindon At 4am? We are told we will be encouraged to walk or even ride a bike! We can even walk to work together so as to be safe!!

The
..debate...

Gloucester mail centre to shut

These comments are apparently taken from a document submitted to Swindon Council for planning per-mission to build the new office.
Obviously the same person who came up with the idea of shutting Gloucester also wrote and "researched" the subject thoroughly.
I hope your readers get some idea about how much work has been put into Royal Mail's feasibility study!
Please sign our petition and write to Alan Leighton Supporting our fight to keep Gloucester Mail Centre open. I want to keep our office open and I also want Gloucestershire to continue within Royal Mail and not become part of Thames Valley Division.

MARJ REES
via email
IF Royal Mail goes ahead with the
plans and closes Gloucestershire's
Mail Centre, each and every Christ‑
mas card posted in the Forest of Dean

to addresses in the Forest of Dean will have at least a 120-mile round trip.
This will cause later delivery times and a second class service to rural and urban areas.
Visit www.savegloucestermailcentre.co.uk and sign the online petition. Write to Royal Mail objecting to their plans. Write to your MP and urge them to put pressure on Royal Mail.

MAIL SORTER via email
I SHOULD like to register a protest against the transfer of the Gloucester Mail Centre to Swindon.
Gloucester is already beginning to look like a "dead" city.
We must fight to retain all our essential services.

MRS P. G. MILLS Tuffley

WITH Royal Mail's planned closure of the mail centre in Gloucester the arrival of post into the county will be delayed.
If mail is to brought over from Swindon to every town in Gloucester-shire there will be later delivery times and a big impact on our already busy roads.
What about the environment? This must be opposed.

DELIVERY POSTMAN via email
ALTHOUGH we welcome the total sup-port that local politicians have given us, to be blunt it's time to put your money where your mouth is and include a new mail centre in the massive regeneration project that is ongoing in Gloucester because Royal Mail is only interested in maximising profits not providing a public service.

JON ELLIS via email