Po Closure Will Sound Village's Death-Knell ; All It Took Was an Official Stroke of the Pen - and the Post Office That has Been at the Heart of a Cornish Village's Life Was Condemned to Closure. An Indispensable Service That has Existed in Altarnun Since 1873 Could Vanish Before Christmas.

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All it took was an official stroke of the pen - and the post office that has been at the heart of a Cornish village's life was condemned to closure. An indispensable service that has existed in Altarnun since 1873 could vanish before Christmas.

With it will go not only the post office counters service, but the village's only free cash machine, medicine dispensary, grocery store, newsagent, its main notice board - and so much more that has a value far beyond the practical or the financial.

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Po Closure Will Sound Village's Death-Knell ; All It Took Was an Official Stroke of the Pen - and the Post Office That has Been at the Heart of a Cornish Village's Life Was Condemned to Closure. An Indispensable Service That has Existed in Altarnun Since 1873 Could Vanish Before Christmas.

The doors will close on the focal point of community life. And then what becomes of those who depend on it - many of them are elderly, widowed, living alone, or in declining health?

If anything untoward has happened to someone in Altarnun, it is at the post office where the alarm would be raised. That is where the staff and other customers are first to notice someone'...

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