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On Saturday (December 9th) Reading West MP Martin Salter will be joining postal workers in targeting Christmas shoppers in a campaign to stop the proposed transfer of the Reading Mail Centre to Swindon.
Mr Salter will be joining workers on the CWU stall outside Marks and Spencers in Broad Street to hand out leaflets and stickers to shoppers and to collect signatures for the petition against the closure. Special stickers have been produced by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) which the public are encouraged to place on their Christmas cards. Figures published by the CWU show that the impact of the closure of the Reading and Gloucester mail centres and the transfer of operations to Swindon would add a staggering 2 million miles a year of extra road journeys. Reading West MP Martin Salter said: “This campaign has clearly struck a chord with the public and since the launch of the campaign last week I have had many calls and letters objecting to the closure of the Reading mail centre. "Local people are very concerned about the impact on jobs, and the possible detrimental affects on the postal service in Reading as well as the potential damage to the environment. "At a time of year when people particularly rely on postal workers we hope that we get lots of support on Saturday from shoppers who simply can’t see the need for a Christmas card posted in Tilehurst to a relative in Woodley to end up travelling to Swindon and back” Terry Jackson, CWU South East Regional Secretary, has urged members of the public, and the business community, to support the campaign and send a message of good cheer to all the workers at the under threat Reading Mail Centre this Christmas.
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