Camden Town post office

• THE news about the moving and downsizing of Camden Town post office was, regrettably, all too predictable.

This, as many of us surmised, was just another of those phony “consultation” exercises that translated as “We’ll tell you what we’re planning to do; you’ll tell that you don’t want us to; we’ll go right ahead and do it anyway”.

Anyone who has visited the pathetic excuse for a post office that’s now crammed into the back of a gift-card store in Kentish Town will have some idea what we can expect in Camden High Street – and the Camden Town post office is much larger, and attracts many more customers, than was the case for its Kentish Town counterpart.

The chances of the privatised, profit-fixated Post Office company changing its mind are, of course, vanishingly small. But it would be interesting to find out from them the results of their “consultation”. According to your editorial, they’re claiming them as “positive”.

I don’t know of a single person around here (including the staff-members of the Camden Town branch whom I spoke to) who was in the least in favour of the move. Do you?

PHILIP KEMP
Jeffreys Street, NW1