Steve Pound's post box

I spent the morning in Greenford Green ward, campaigning with Ealing North MP (and old friend) Steve Pound, and activists from Ealing Borough Party and elsewhere – one colleague even came from Ipswich to support Steve’s work.

Steve told us about an interesting case on which he’d recently won a victory. Residents of the Costons Lane area in the neighboring Greenford Broadway ward had complained to Steve that there was no postbox in the area. Steve took this up with the post office, and was told there was no pavement site in the area that could accommodate the large underground part of a post box. Apparently post boxes are like icebergs, and need a lot of space below.

The most famous post box in Greenford

Steve went back to the post office and pointed out that, elsewhere in his constituency, there was a postbox attached to a lamp post which avoided this problem. He showed them an old stump of a lamp post in Costons Lane in an ideal position. This worked, and he showed us the resulting post box – although I think local people thought we were mad, standing in the street celebrating and photographing a post box.

This is a really good idea for getting a public service where one wouldn’t otherwise be provided. If you live in East Acton ward, and do not have a nearby post box, please contact me on phil@east-acton.com and I'll put this to the post office quoting Steve Pound’s work as an example