Post office users to fight threat of 550 closures

A national movement aimed at fighting the threat to the future of rural post offices is to be launched in the West tonight.

The development is aimed at co-ordinating the efforts of communities across the country who fear that up to 550 post offices will face closure under reorganisation plans of An Post.

Organisers believe An Post will ‘pick off’ individual post office opposition groups but that combined and concerted opposition offers the best prospect of preserving local services.