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Dunedin sends a giant postcard to NZ Post CEO


Dunedin sends a giant postcard to New Zealand Post CEO Brian Roche

Media release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday 17 June 2011

When New Zealand Post CEO Brian Roche collects his mail, he will need a bit of help to carry a Giant Postcard sent with a special message from Dunedin - Save Dunedin Metro Post Office and Kiwibank.

A special public signing of the Giant Postcard will be held at 12.30 today outside the Civic Centre in The Octagon.

Save Dunedin Post Shop and Kiwibank campaign spokesperson Victor Billot says members of the public are invited to sign the Giant Postcard and add their messages.

The postcard reads "Dear Brian, please don't shut out post office. Yours sincerely, Dunedin."

The giant postcard can be viewed online at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22147001/Dear_Brian.pdf

The Dunedin Metro Post Shop and Kiwibank is under threat of closure next week.

Head office managers have refused to meet with local people to hear their concerns.

Following the unveiling and public signing outside the Civic Centre, supporters will carry the Giant Postcard to Dunedin Metro Post Shop in the Exchange where an attempt will be made to freepost it.

"We will be asking people to trudge all the way down the Exchange with us to symbolize the trip that busy, heavily laden New Zealand Post customers will have to make every day without their post if Dunedin Metro is closed."

Supporters are gathering outside the Civic Centre today to highlight that not enough organized support from city representatives has been seen.

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"We have had a letter or two sent, some individual councillors joining us, but there does not seem to be the co-ordinated and high profile public backing that Dunedin ratepayers would expect from the City."

The mayor has declined to meet with the group today as he has a prior engagement.

Mr Billot says a meeting has been arranged with the Mayor next Tuesday.

"We want to meet with the Mayor, it would have been good to have had some kind of meeting a month ago."

However the group would be staging a walk past of the DCC at today's gathering to register their concerns.

2518 signatures have been gathered on a petition and sent to New Zealand Post.

ENDS

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