SAVE OUR POST OFFICE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

That this House recognises that 1 December 2018 will be the CWU led Save our Post Office National Day of Action; acknowledges the importance of local post offices on main and high streets in all communities across the UK; supports the campaign led by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) to save the 74 Crown post offices that have been announced for franchise and the hundreds of jobs that will be impacted; appreciates and celebrates the campaigning of the CWU and its members to protect these vital public services; praises all those postal workers who in the run up to Christmas will be working so hard to ensure that people in all parts of the UK receive their parcels, presents and letters before 25 December; and extends the warmest of wishes to all the thousands of postal workers, who will be working so hard in all weathers, for a very happy Christmas and all the best for, December Day of Action.