A CAMPAIGN was launched in Cirencester in April to save a local post office.
The Gloucester Street sub-post office would close in July 1987 unless customers, residents and firms could convince the Post Office that they could not do without it.
The closure was part of a nationwide cost cutting measure to decommission small branches in towns and cities.
The company believed the main Crown Post Office in Cirencester would be able to cope with the extra business from the Gloucester Street branch.
“It’s not only Gloucester Street people who will be affected, but people from Stratton and the Bowling Green area” said Mr Doublett, sub-postmaster of the threatened branch.
“Many elderly people live nearby and the disabled would be hardest hit.”
He continued: “If it closes they are going to be penalised. They would have to try and get down to the Crown office where the staff work under pressure and you can queue up to 40 minutes just to buy stamps.”
A petition launched on the Monday had attracted over 250 signatures by the end of the day.
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