Don't rip the heart out of Greenodd
Published on 16/04/2008
I WOULD like to add my distant voice to the many others you have already heard.
There are umpteen obvious reasons why Greenodd Post Office should remain open and I will simply summarise them.
1: Interaction between local residents due to having a focal point.
2: Local care and kind-ness and understanding provided on a daily basis by Lloyd and Janet Willis, who run the post office.
3: Old folk not having to take heavy parcels to Ulverston.
4: Ulverston always seems too busy!
5: A mobile van is simply not up to the task.
6: Grange-over-Sands enjoys six PO branches over a three (and a bit) mile area – so why pick on Greenodd?
And of course there are plenty of other reasons I could give.
But the single most obvious point has to be the simple fact that the thriving village, like all such villages, is more than the sum of its parts, and if one part is taken away it becomes less that what is left.
In short, it becomes moribund.
Take away our post office and the village will itself begin that slow decay that is invisible, remorseless and unstoppable once the heart is ripped out of anything.
If the above sounds emotional, it is, because the lifeblood of any village is a post office, and people that live in Greenodd are not fools.
They know the place will gradually become something radically different to what went before. Please reconsider the closure of Greenodd Post Office.
E M DICKSON
Edgeware,Middlesex