Please can I clarify the following points regarding your front page article in last week's Mercury, regarding the closure of the sorting office in Stamford?
The comments from the union about Stamford employees being happy to move to Peterborough could not be further from the truth.
Nobody in their right mind wants to travel all the way to Peterborough and back again to deliver the mail.
In answer
to Mary Lamont's letter of last week and her question of "what do they intend to do about the postmen and women who deliver on bikes."
The answer is they intend to put two deliveries together and give those people a van, thus making the carbon footprint she mentions even bigger.
Yes, there are problems with the sorting office being too small for its present capacity of mail, but surely a new office in Stamford, as originally planned, would have been better.
Even the recent pedestrian transformation of the Sheep Market hasn't helped, creating a health and safety issue.
As to the future of the building, no doubt it will be sold for apartments.
Although no jobs are expected to go, in time as people leave they will be replaced by personnel from Peterborough, eventually meaning that 60 jobs will be lost from the town.
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