Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park Royal Mail Depot closure.
Just noticed a closure sign about the N4 sorting office.
I couldn't be more infuriated about this now. They're moving to the existing depot down the other side of Holloway Road. I used to live in Holloway and that was my local depot. Now a 300 yard trip to the sorting office to see John and pick up my vinyl purchases is going to be a 6 mile round trip!
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Permalink Reply by Phil M on
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Ah, Yodel, the chancers who leave all our packages outside so that (a) anybody passing by knows we're not in and (b) they can nick our packages. I wouldn't recommend them. Their drivers are incompetent fools.
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Permalink Reply by Alexander Smith on
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I used to work at the N4 sorting office in Fonthill Road before it was moved to Harringay. They must have kept the name.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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That looks like a really difficult place to get to on foot or by public transport, in fact by anything but by car. Look at the map, and the scale:
From the Upper Holloway station you'd have to walk (bus?) nearly to the end of Junction Road then double back. It's closer to Tufnell Park tube but that's on the Northern Line, change at Kings X Zone 1.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Loving the fact that it situated within a question mark; doesn't bode well.
I think I'd call it Tufnell Park, rather than Holloway, but I guess Holloway sounds that much nearer.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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It looks like you have to find someway of getting to Junction Road, then walk back along Station Road for a couple of hundred metres (unless anyone knows a shortcut between Foxham and Station Roads). This is going to be a nightmare if you use public transport. At least the one at the Arena is convenient for that. I can see this causing a huge jump in people requesting re-delivery so not much of a money saver!
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Google maps rarely show cut-throughs between roads, so there may well be a way through from Whittington Park via the community centre.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Having now returned from this morning's expedition, I can confirm there appears to be no cut-throughs as I had hoped and looked for. This mail depot is at the deepest end of an industrial estate to which the only access is Station Road (map above).
From east central Stroud Green it takes about three quarters of an hour to walk for a relatively able bodied man (along the way, I bumped into Cllr Diakides and managed to fall over on an icy pavement.)
For anyone in N4 or N8 who needs to collect from the office, I suggest that if they live near the W5 bus route, to take that, which is a 20 minute journey to Archway. Unless you are going via the Tufnell Park tube station anyway (Northern Line) I reckon the W5 is the best public transport alternative for N4 and N8 residents.
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Thank you or the map Pam; this morning on a first visit, I will be collecting an item. I will be walking. I may be gone some time.
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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I've just realised I have to go tomorrow. I plan to either cycle or to get the number 4 bus from Finsbury Park, which seems to go nearer than other buses (because it goes down Tufnell Park Road). This seems to have come around much quicker than I had thought it would. I know it's been said before, but I wonder how many parcels will go uncollected now - my husband has one to collect that didn't have enough postage on. We're 99% certain that it's a pack of documents from the school he's a governor of in preparation for a meeting that happened last Wednesday - if I didn't have to go anyway, the temptation not to bother would be very strong...
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How did it go Clive? I must admit to having fears my legs won't be up to it.
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