WITH the proposed amalgamation between Newcastle Permanent and Greater Bank ('Greater Perm won't do an NIB', Newcastle Herald, 23/9; Editorial 28/9), my concerns of this bureaucratic proposal are that jobs, branches and services will definitely go.
Nelson Bay CBD has already seen the closure of both these offices and I feel that half the remaining offices within NSW will close after the mandatory two-year transitional grace period (earlier it was three-year non-forced redundancies or branch closures).
