Madam,

Have Post Office chiefs in their ivory towers in London, or wherever, lost their marbles?

We have in Aberystwyth a perfectly good, first-class post office, together with the staff who go the extra mile to be helpful and courteous to us, the general public.

It has taken time and money to train these staff, who are now at an acceptable numbers level after several years of having to queue. At least there is room to queue!

It is spacious, allowing for people with mobility problems, wheelchairs, mums with babies in pushchairs and prams, but now the Post Office wants to move it to a store which doesn’t have enough room to swing the proverbial cat!

Where in WH Smith is this ‘modern retail environment’ going to go? Have they been to look at the place?

How much is WH Smith getting to house a post office in an inadequately small shop? How much has the glossy pamphlet cost to print and distribute?

The post office branch has already been modernised, not once, not twice, but three times in the 20 years I have lived in Aberystwyth. All that money will have been wasted.

This proposed move is not a ‘proposed move’ at all. This deal has been done and dusted and no amount of complaint or criticism will allow us, the people who use this facility, to keep the post office where it is, in the middle of the town in a listed building still fit for purpose due to modernisations.

There is no need to ‘relocate’ the memorial and I don’t think the Post Office can possibly imagine the hurt done to these fallen heroes and their families who still live in the town, if this is done. We are in the middle of the centenary remembering the worst battle in human history and they have the gall to say that the relocation will be handled with ‘due and proper care and sensitivity, including a re-dedication ceremony’.

Do they realise how crass that sounds? Why have to move it at all? I am saying that this deal is done and dusted, but I would love to be proved wrong.

Yours etc,

Sue Slocombe, Cledan Cottage, Llanon.