Pulse 1, you beat me to it by a small margin! Mrs Bear has signed up to after we received the following e-mail in our inbox today, it is an outrage and typical of this current collection of *****s in power.
Want to save the BFPO System?
Petition to: reconsider the decision to remove British Forces Post Offices from mainland europe. | Number10.gov.uk
Please click on and sign the above petition. Though we all understand that defence cuts are to be made, this is an area which affects the families in particular. The BFPO system is the mechanism whereby post is received by our serving soldiers, sailors and airmen and their famil ies abroad at a postal address recognised as being part of this country, no matter where in the world they are serving, even in war zones.
Amongst other things the loss of the BFPO service will disenfranchise them if they are postal voters; some credit card providers will not send cards abroad (M&S for example) whereas they will to a BFPO address; it may affect their ability to let their house whilst posted abroad, or away from home; it may take away their tax advantages such as being able to have an ISA whilst posted abroad. It will affect Open University students who have a BFPO address as they will be charged higher fees; it will potentially effect children of serving soldiers when they go to University, as they may not be eligible for student loans/fees to be paid, and will be charged higher fees as they live abroad. They will also be charged different rates for subscriptions etc. as they will now have to come via local mail, and not the UK mail.
Thanks for supporting our servicemen and women together with their families in this way and please forward this email to as many of your friends as you can.
Get behind this Guys and Gals, the BFPO is a fantastic organisation and it must not be allowed to fold!
