Post plan panned

I AM absolutely blown away at the plans to move St Neots post office from its current venue to Martins. As a mother with a pushchair, Martins is one of the only shops in St Neots that I avoid like the plague. No disrespect to the people that work there,

I AM absolutely blown away at the plans to move St Neots post office from its current venue to Martins.

As a mother with a pushchair, Martins is one of the only shops in St Neots that I avoid like the plague.

No disrespect to the people that work there, but with its awkward double doors, slopes, cramped aisles, grubby tiled floors and general gloominess, I would rather walk to the other side of town to Woolworth's to buy my papers, Lottery tickets etc.

I visit the post office at least three times a week as I sell a lot on eBay and, it doesn't matter what day or time I go, there is always a large queue.

However, I have to say the current staff are fantastic - they are always friendly, happy, and the queues certainly don't take long to go down because they are so efficient.

But on some days, like a Tuesday/Thursday morning, the queue is to the door. How on earth is Martins going to cope with that?

A town the size of St Neots certainly warrants a separate post office. Huntingdon and St Ives both have one and, even when Huntingdon didn't, the post office was in Woolworth's, which is a large store with wide aisles and automatic doors - the opposite of Martins.

I will certainly be signing the petition and contacting Tony Marsh, network services manager at the Post Office and only hope that the folk of St Neots do, too.

DAWN PARR

St Neots