Ministers have delayed the closure of hundreds of post offices until after next year's local elections. Cunning, eh? Wicked, evil, electioneering. They want 2,500 branches to shut by the end of 2008 - but decisions on which ones will go have yet not been made. Please remember that the dead hand of the EU may be detected behind ALL of this, something which the government has never made public. [Postal Directives: 97/67/EC and 2002/39/EC.]
