New Post Office

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Permalink Reply by Elaine W on August 9, 2019 at 8:46

I had a similar experience. I posted two birthday cards, first class, on the day the new PO opened. They took at least 4 days to arrive. I tend to use street pillar boxes now.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha on August 9, 2019 at 11:14

I'm going to do that from now on.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Valentine on August 9, 2019 at 9:13

The post box is now marked closed.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha on August 9, 2019 at 11:13

That the new post box inside??

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on August 9, 2019 at 11:32

That doesn’t bode well. A post-office that can’t manage a post box! Yikes!

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Permalink Reply by Don on August 10, 2019 at 12:26

There's what looks like a new pillar box just round the corner in Chesterfield Gardens, with a last collection at 5.30pm, which I'm guessing may have been put there because the new Post Office doesn't have an external box as the old one did, so nobody could post anything outside opening hours.

My experience of the new branch isn't that reassuring, either: when I handed a small parcel over for posting, the person at the counter asked me, quite seriously, "Is that the address it's going to?" - which seemed a bit strange, as it was written on the front of the parcel where... er... you'd normally write the address.

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Permalink Reply by Maddy on August 10, 2019 at 12:42

I went to post a package this morning at 11.55 hoping it would arrive Monday, but they told me I'd already missed today's post. I'm sure the old PO was open until 12.30 for Saturday collections.

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