Hundreds of readers signed our petitions against the proposed closures of Rawson Road, Dale Acre Drive and Aintree Road post offices.

The petitions were sent off, along with forms printed in the paper, towards the end of the consultation deadline earlier this month.

We have now received a reply from Aale Syed, of Post Office Ltd's National Consultation Team. Here's an extract:

We view the six-week local public consultation as a very real and important opportunity for all interested parties to engage with us and let us know how our proposals impact on them, which will help inform and shape our final decision. I would, therefore, like to thank you for the time taken to consider our proposals and bring the views of the local community to our attention.

Jane Briginshaw, Network Development Manager, has been informed of the strength of feeling expressed in petition format. As you are aware public consultation has now finished we are currently considering all of the responses received before making our decisions in line with various Government specified criteria and factors, having taken all relevant public consultation responses into account. I would like to confirm that the petition will form part of this final process.

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