[garinda]

The cost to us, the tax payers, of funding unprofitable Post Offices, is £4 million pounds per day.

How long is that sustainable, and how much higher would that figure have to increase, as more and more people chose to do their business elsewhere, before a line is drawn?

I'd much rather see that daily four million pounds invested in education, health, or community centres, if all people want is somewhere to meet their neighbours.

The only other comparison I can think of, where private, unprofitable businesses, recieve such generous subsidies, are the funds available to farmers via the E.E.C., but of course which is ultimately funded by the tax payer. A practice I also strongly disagree with.