Dear Mr Freer,

The North Finchley Post Office building has been there all of my life. It was constructed, presumably, when England was great and we could afford a proper Post Office.

Now each time that I pass the Post Office building at Tally Ho corner, and I see the "For Sale" sign, I find resentment rising provoked by the scandal of its closure.

I also feel no pleasure at all when I reflect on the shameful and blatantly fraudulent "consultation" that was carried out in bad faith by the Post Office.

I also feel extremely disappointed when I have to go into the converted conservatory with less than 7 feet headroom in the cramped and inadequate building where the Post Office is currently situated.

Unfortunately, I am do not have the benefit of knowledge of business finance.

And so I fail to understand how an enterprise that has to pay a rent of aound £40,000 a year that is required for the current location can possibly be competitive with one that has zero annual rent to pay.

If and when the Post Office building is sold off, the Post Office will make a short term gain, which somehow, by some deep economic logic will have to indirectly balance the £40,000 rent for some years in the future.

It is commonly stated that the Conservatives know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I know that some conservatives regard it as a principle of dogma that private enterprises are always preferable to public ones. I wonder if the Labour Party has sympathy for this outlook.

We are told that England is going to be great again at some time in the future (if China does not flatten us economically). In that case and at that time, could we have our Post Office back, please?

Thank you.

Philip Bowman

6 Lynton Avenue

N12 9JH