Rural isolation occurs when communities are left without access to essential economic and social components of modern life. Large tracts of the countryside have only one bus a week and there are many villages that are served by a single shop. It is easy to understand why residents feel betrayed if it closes. If that shop is also the local post office  the place in which, traditionally, pensions and state benefits are paid  then people often feel that the death knell of their community has been sounded. The UK has over 14,000 rural post offices, almost all located in community shops, and it is planned that 2,500 will close. They will be selected on the basis of commercial viability. Mobile post offices, internet services and the payment of benefits directly into claimants bank accounts are proposed as a replacement for this vital national network.
Question: The author would agree that when a post office is closed and that post office is based in a community shop then it too will close.
Options:
A. true, B. false, C. uncertain
Answer: C