Four more Sydney post offices will close in the lead-up to Christmas, making it even harder for residents to access postal services across the city.
Burwood is the latest to get the chop after an 11th hour bid to save Milsons Point failed spectacularly.
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After being told their post office was too expensive to stay open, locals called for landlord Transport for New South Wales to help — and it did, offering a lease at 2022 prices.
“This is a special offer that we’re making for the Milsons Point community. There is absolutely no reason why Australia Post should not sign that lease today,” said Josh Murray from Transport for NSW.
But Australia Post said no. The branch, it says, makes significant losses and will still close in November.
“We’re completely outraged. We won’t stop here,” said local business owner Venietta Slama-Powell, arguing the service is vital to many elderly residents.
“They come here to do their banking, get their pension, pay their power bills,” said local resident Bryce Gunn.
In Revesby residents gathered at their post office, which is closing next month.
“It’s going to mean a hell of a lot of difficulties,” said local resident Brian Barrett.
To arguments that no one uses post offices anymore, Barrett responded: “It’s rubbish. There’s been people coming in and out all the time we’ve been standing there.”
Canterbury Bankstown Mayor Bilal El-Hayek called for the federal government to intervene.
“There’s about 20,000 people in that catchment. It is not fair for the local community. It is not fair for the elderly that don’t know how to use the computer or the internet,” he said.
Kingsgrove Post Office closes in three weeks and Burwood shuts in November, joining Pennant Hills, Artarmon, Rockdale and Campsie, which have all disappeared in the last 12 months.
Meanwhile in the city centre there are an abundance of post offices, with 7NEWS counting 39 within 5km of the CBD.
Slama-Powell said Australia Post’s CEO Paul Graham was “failing the people”.
“You’re making the disadvantaged more disadvantaged,” she said.
Australia Post says it plans to have a community meeting tomorrow afternoon to explain what it calls “customer transition”.
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