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Post Office protest update!

It went well. :) Some of us stood inside and some stood outside gathering signatures for the petition, which currently has over 700.

The managers from Cardiff turned up late but they turned up, and while we protested there was a meeting with 3 protestors plus the managers and some Spar and Post Office staff.

I wasn't in the meeting and haven't seen notes yet, but rumour has it the managers see that they've been hasty and they're pausing the refurbishment plans and they're going to do some consultation.

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#Machynlleth

⚠️🚨 PROTEST NOTICE! 🚨⚠️

#Machynlleth, #Powys, mid #Wales / #Cymru.

Outside and inside the Spar and Post Office on Maengwyn Street, tomorrow, Weds 3rd Dec, 9am - 10am.

They're taking vital Post Office services away in January, without consulting residents.

Electronic #petition here: https://www.change.org/p/call-to-stop-the-proposed-changes-to-the-spar-blakemore-s-post-office-machynlleth

Local news article: https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/staff-speak-out-against-machynlleth-post-office-changes-as-petition-launched-855848

#protest

The Post Office in our mid Wales town lives inside a Spar owned and run by a company.

They've just admitted that in January they are downsizing our Post Office, reducing staff and services dramatically.

A manager from the company that owns the Spar is visiting it tomorrow, so we're staging a protest of support for the Post Office while they're there, and handing over a petition of over 500 signatures. (There's only about 1,000 people living in the town.)

The protest might not even work, because Royal Mail isn't publicly owned anymore - it's 100% controlled by companies who can do whatever they want. But I'm furious and I'm going anyway.

If you live in/near #Machynlleth, come along - the manager's arriving around 9:30am so we're turning up from 9am.

Home-made protest sign. Brown cardboard with a white rectangle where an address label would go. A giant stamp in the top right corner, with the King's face modified with a black Sharpie to look angry. Text on sign: My home > Post Office passport and ID services > Home again. Now: On foot, 30 mins maximum. From Jan 2026: by train and wheelchair, 3 hours minimum.

A moody start to the morning.
Bore da from #Machynlleth.
#Wales #photography #landscape

A rainy valley with mist rising on the floodplain in the background.

We're up with the birds in chilly #Machynlleth.
Bore da!
#Wales #landscape #photography

A blue dawn breaks over the valley shrouded in mist.

First frost strikes this morning. Bore da from #Machynlleth.
#Wales #photography #landscape

A frosty blue morning rises in a valley kissed by a dusting of ice.

Bore da from #Machynlleth.

#Wales #photography #landscape

Mist rises from the valley as the small town and church wake up under a blanket of yellow dusted clouds.

Spot the rainbow.
#Machynlleth #Wales #photography #landscape

An autumnal view of the valley with a smattering of rainbow.

Autumnal glory in #Machynlleth.

#Wales #photography #SilentSunday #landscape

A blue sky littered with puffy clouds and a valley draped in the warm yellow and coppery colours of autumn.

Late evening trains on the Cambrian Coast line to remain in place http://dlvr.it/TNw3cb #CambrianCoast #Criccieth #Machynlleth #Network

The combination of a hot summer and a humid-but-not-drowning-like-rats #autumn in #Wales this year has resulted in some gorgeous #fungi worlds. No idea what species are growing here other than they're doing it in gay abandon.

#photography #nature #Machynlleth

A colony of small dark brown capped and white-bellied shrooms growing all over a dead trunk.

Nutty brown shrooms exploding en masse out of the side of a tree trunk.

#StewartLee pointing out the #machynlleth #comedyfestival and #EdinburghFringe are both bigger than the #riyadhcomedyfestival

https://youtu.be/OTfcuJFNiy4?si=fN-LqUSoG0Eo_7aE

Autumn is the cruelest month
Bore da from #Machynlleth.

#Wales #landscape #photography #SilentSunday

Puffy cloud mountains hey-hoing across the slightly autumnal valley.

Bore da from #Machynlleth on this fine misty morning. Autumn is starting to descend on the valley.

#Wales #landscape #photography

Mist is lifting from the valley under a cold white sky.

I also tried to photograph a spider's web recently - this was taken near Machynlleth in Wales, early evening last month. Just taken on my phone. #Machynlleth #wales #CentreForAlternativeTechnology

Machynlleth town clock chimes remain, despite hotel owner's request to silence at night

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