SIR - The post office is something to be proud of, not to be hidden away in the corner of a stationery shop. It is the centre of the community and deserves to be run properly.

Other countries have a postal service and do not have the problem of leaving the public in dire need, which we seem to be doing.

Also, the post office building in Foregate Street has recently been refurbished with new flooring. Is this going to become another derelict building?

The reason the Post Office is losing so much money is because too many bosses want high salaries.

This was not the original idea of Rowland Hill, of Kidderminster, who started the Penny Post in 1840, which later grew worldwide and became Royal Mail.

I ask the powers-that-be to please have a re-think before we lose something irreplaceable.

MRS D COOK-HOPKINS, Worcester