A campaign has been launched to save rural post offices near Stourbridge from closure – after Royal Mail admitted funds to keep them afloat may not be available after 2008.

A task group has been set up in a bid to get the Post Office to review plans to close rural post offices which could include Hagley, Clent, Belbroughton and Alvechurch.

Council officers are now asking representatives from the Post Office to attend a public meeting to discuss their fears that rural post offices will be closed.

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A campaign has been launched to save rural post offices near Stourbridge from closure – after Royal Mail admitted funds to keep them afloat may not be available after 2008.

A task group has been set up in a bid to get the Post Office to review plans to close rural post offices which could include Hagley, Clent, Belbroughton and Alvechurch.

Council officers are now asking representatives from the Post Office to attend a public meeting to discuss their fears that rural post offices will be closed.Bromsgrove District Council has set up a Scrutiny Steering Board to look more closely at their concerns that the Post Office will close rural branches.

Top Hagley post office closed last year.

Councillor John Ruck said a task group would now be set up to fight future closures which were likely across the region.

The Post Office says that the majority of rural branches are fundamentally loss-making.