Post offices

SNP MSP for Central Scotland, Jamie Hepburn, has welcomed the support of the SNP Conference today (Saturday) in condemning the decimation of the local Post Office network under the Labour government and acknowledged the role local post offices could supply as a trusted local banking system, which the post office network can supply.

The Department of Work and Pensions are to award the contract for the Post Office Card Account to one of the Royal Mail's competitors, but plan to delay the announcement until after the Glenrothes by election.

SNP Candidate for the Glenrothes by-election Councillor Peter Grant today called on the UK Government to save Scotland’s post offices and allow the Post Office to continue to operate the Post Office Card Account.

SNP MSPs have reacted angrily to the news that only one of the forty four post offices put forward for closure in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire has been saved.

SNP Westminster Post Office spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has led condemnation of the latest round of proposed post office closures after dozens were earmarked today for closure or downgrading in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the south of Scotland.

SNP candidate in the Glasgow East by-election Cllr John Mason today called on the UK Government not to take the Post Office Card Account Contract away from the Post Office.

The SNP National Council meeting in Perth today called upon the UKGovernment to ensure that Post Office is awarded the contract for thesuccessor to the Post Office Card Account, currently out to tender.

SNP Postal Services spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has welcomed the latest report from the Commons Business and Enterprise Select Committee on the future of Post Offices.

SNP MP Mike Weir has warned of a further risk to 350 post offices in Scotland if Post Offices Ltd does not win the contract for the successor to the Post Office Card Account.

Mike Weir MP, SNP Spokesperson on Postal Services, has expressed deep concern at the decision of Royal Mail to seek a judicial review of the decision by Postcomm to refuse its application for the introduction of zonal pricing.