tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post2111492937881819215..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: Move the bloody Post OfficeMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-50635262881919710882008-06-26T14:41:00.000+10:002008-06-26T14:41:00.000+10:00I can understand why the owner of the Edge Hill Po...I can understand why the owner of the Edge Hill Post Office wants to move his business to the Brinsmead Shopping Centre.<BR/><BR/>What I can't understand - or rather, don't accept - is that access to so much of the postal service is governed by business considerations.<BR/><BR/>Once the great god profit rules in making decisions about the provision of postal services it is inevitable that, among other things, post offices will be taken out of local communities, to be increasingly concentrated. Who says both Edge Hill and Manoora wouldn't benefit from local access to postal services?<BR/><BR/>And the end to local post office access for evermore communities will proceed despite the advantage to post office business operators offered by their being the sole conduit for access to paying for a monopoly public service, ie the postal delivery system. Could most post offices operate as retail shops without people going into them to access postage of letters and parcels? Probably not, I think.<BR/><BR/>But this is NOT a criticism of those who have bought post office businesses.<BR/><BR/>NO part of the postal service should ever have been sold. The owner should be bought out now with compensation for their livelihoods (that is, for the work they do, not the profit they make).<BR/><BR/>Jonathan StraussAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-10544245304090480242008-06-20T10:03:00.000+10:002008-06-20T10:03:00.000+10:00I also disagree. I grew up in the Edge Hill area a...I also disagree. I grew up in the Edge Hill area and have always liked it for the amount of services so relatively close to my place. It was a quaint little place in the 70s and 80s(there used to be 3 service stations on the Edge Hill 5-ways), and still feels that way now even though its moved with the times with coffee shops and the like. It still has a village atmosphere that you just don't get in shopping centres. <BR/><BR/>I'm sure many other long term Edge Hill residents agree(and there are many, they are not all from the south as you may think). <BR/><BR/>It would be a shame for the post office to move, but as Michael says, the business at Brinsmead shopping centre will be much higher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-91747781715490679162008-06-19T17:50:00.000+10:002008-06-19T17:50:00.000+10:00Really nice, Michael. Get down in the gutter and f...Really nice, Michael. Get down in the gutter and foster "class warfare". Sounds like you're a little jealous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com