This surprising decision came like a bolt out of the blue, especially as significant numbers of people from Roydon have come to depend on our village facility, following the closure of their local service.

Bressingham and Fersfield are the nearest communities to our post office, but Roydon, Shelfanger and Winfarthing are also served by this valuable resource, as are a numbers of parents from in and around Diss who drop their children off at Bressingham school. The smaller communities of Snow Street, Wilney Green, Pooley Street, Wortham Ling and Boyland Common also benefit.

I would not hesitate in saying that Bressingham, with the exception of Diss, surpasses its nearest rivals, both in terms of customers and turnover.

The social value of a friendly chat with a local postmaster having local knowledge and a sympathetic ear should not be underestimated, and has always been one of the underlying principles of a good local community service.

No matter how I look at my findings, I cannot find one iota of evidence to support the closure of Bressingham PO.

Please can we have some common sense applied to the closure process instead of the rather arbitrary waffle about how nobody is going to be deprived?

Let consultation be a meaningful two-way process and let's explore the anomalies and come up with real solutions on the doorstep, even it means providing the service in a community-related way.

Reg Brock, Bressingham

The criteria for Post Office closures, such as the one at Gislingham, shows how unrealistic the Government is.

To put an outreach facility in a pub is not, I believe, a good idea.

The Government assumes that everyone has public transport at their doorstep or they are fit and can walk or cycle three miles to the nearest post office.

Cars, even if you have one, are not to be considered because of carbon footprints, or, of course, there is the good old internet, if you have a computer.

It all goes to show how hypocritical the Government is.

Action is long overdue but count me in as a past inhabitant of Gislingham.

Elizabeth Mooney, Pearce Road, Diss.