The branch is one of 22 in Leeds earmarked for closure.

Post Offices are losing around £3.5m a week with four million fewer customers than two years ago.

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Residents will have only a six week consultation – starting from today –to save any branch earmarked for closure.

The criteria for the future Post Office network focuses on the number of households able to access branches.

In urban areas 95 per cent of the population will be within one mile of a branch.

In rural areas 95 per cent of the population will have to travel up to three miles.

If the closures all go ahead, there will be 209 branches in urban areas of West Yorkshire and 73 in rural areas.

A Post Office statement said: "Post Office Limited is acutely aware of the concerns the changes affecting Post Office branches in the West Yorkshire area will cause.

"If these proposed changes take place, Post Office Limited will remain the largest retailer by network size in the area, and will still have more branches open than the number of branches of major banks and building societies combined."

YOUR VIEWS:

Closure would be a crime.
Good people run the post office in Far Headingley, the community all use it. Many can not do without it. To shut it is a crime against our community.

We can all walk to it, saving traffic congestion and helping to save the environment and reduce our impact on climate change.
Its time to be tough on the cause of this closure crime.

No more Post offices to be closed anywhere.

Our Political masters know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

Anonymous

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I'd just like to voice my opinion regarding the proposed closure of Far Headingley Post Office. I have lived in Weetwood for nearly ten years and am self-employed. I visit the post office twice a week, sometimes more often. I have to point out that this is partly due to the Post office itself, which has made posting a simple letter sometimes hugely complicated. When I've weighed the letter/small package myself and put on the appropriate postage it hasn't reached its destination, or the recipient has been informed that they have more to pay at the other end. I try to keep up with postage costs and how much a first and second class stamp is actually worth these days but now don't risk it and always go to the post office just to be sure. I presume this isn't just me who has this problem.

So my point is that, basically, at a time when more people are having to use the post office, even for the more simple posting tasks, where is the sense in closing so many of them? In particular the Far Headingley post office, where there's always a queue when I go in there, at least two to three people, so it's well used. Whereas the one in central Headingley is ALWAYS about a half hour wait - and this can just be to get a letter weighed and buy a stamp. For me, time is money and it's infuriating. Presumably if the Far Headingley post office closes the waiting time in the Arndale will be something like 45 minutes to an hour then!

June Taylor

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Closing this post office will be a disaster for the many local people who are elderly and have difficulty in getting to the Arndale Post Office. Parking is nigh on impossible close to the Arndale Centre and hence any disabled people will not be able to visit a post office. Following on from the closure of the West Park post office it means that the people of West Park will have more than a mile to travel to get to a post office which seems contrary to the criteria for closure anyway.

Steve Taytlor

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