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Originally Posted by garinda
Theres a difference between the N.H.S. and the Post Office, the main one being that you can buy a Post Office, and if it's unprofitable, currently have it shored up, using tax payers money. There aren't many other businesses in the U.K. that that applies to.
As a student I doubt you've personally paid enough tax to comment on social benefits not being profitable to 'you'.
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The NHS could be privatised, but of course we don't want that because the service would suffer in terms of long-term diseases like you described in another thread. The NHS is necessary and the post office is necessary. No the post office doesn't save lives, but it is used. If a post office is used by 1 person a day, then fine, close it, but if its being used a lot like many are, and simply making a loss because it costs a lot to run, then we should keep it. As I understand it a particular post office, longshoot, has 800 people petitioning to keep it. Certainly worth keeping, but threatened with closure.
I'm calling for a suspension, which means the issue can be looked at again, properly, rather than closing popular post offices with good business models.