This photo of the post-box in the village was taken in October and I mentioned then how it was wrapped in plastic waiting for the 'automated system'.
Thankfully it is now back in use and looks like this
In youngest daughter's town near the Suffolk coast the Post Office was inside a hardware shop, which closed quite suddenly which left the whole town -extra busy due to the building of Sizewell Nuclear Power Station - without a Post Office and anyway of banking at all . Their Barclays bank shut earlier in the year. There are now 3 towns in the area without a single bank and just a couple of post offices to serve a population of over 20,000 people which will increase by a 1,000 more as the Sizewell building work continues.
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I've no idea what businesses in the three towns do with nowhere to do their banking - yet another push to a cashless society.
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I wonder if they are going to empty it more frequently- it’s not going to take long to fill up with parcels ( although I would still rather hand mine to a person who can place it into a bag, rather than it landing at the bottom of the post box & heavy parcels landing on top!)
ReplyDeleteI just wonder how many people, in a village with many over 60's, will actually use it !
DeleteThe Post Office is probably having to compete with the other parcel delivery services like InPost.The PO in our local town is still there and now accepts Evri parcels too.
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I think our post office does evri and those DIY collect and leave box things are in all the nearby towns, garages and supermarkets
DeleteI'm a bit annoyed at the way the Royal Mail has been putting these automated post boxes right outside the post offices. I will make a point of taking my letters and parcels into the little local post office as this forms part of the income that keeps them viable.
ReplyDeleteI only post a couple of parcels a year and will carry on taking them into the post office. Grandchildren in Sussex get things delivered straight from Amazon for birthdays - very handy but no help for the P.O.
DeleteOur post office had closed and opened and closed and reopened in recent years. Fingers crossed it stays open as the people running it have done a lot of work to the shop. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI think the Post Office here has been in 3 different places in the last 30 years but thankfully now settled in the Premier shop.
DeleteWe still have a post office locally and loads of new houses are turning the village into a small town, hopefully the post office will stay but these days nothing is certain is it.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
I am pleased that they have modified the original EIIR postbox though. Are there any CIIIR postboxes out there?
ReplyDeletePeople in Greater Boston are often warned not to use the mail box because thieves fish out the letters hoping to find a check, then erase the check and cash it themselves. New ones only have slits for letters instead of a wide mouth at the top.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have two post offices. The one we have left is near the railway station at the other end of the 'village.' It's not the most convenient location.
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ReplyDeleteno full-service post office, no banks {Lloyds 20 miles, Barclays 60 miles} no police station, no doctor's surgery, in jeopardy of losing our nearest hospital. Diminishing public transportWhat has become of the fundamentals of our society?
Yet, our Council just shelled out over £5 million for an "instagramable" bridge nicknamed the Curly Wurly.
We have 2 post offices and they are always pretty busy.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the Post Office in our town, which I loved as a child, is now a fast food takeaway and the Post Office is in the convenience store, which used to be a Spar, but now is something else. While all our banks have now closed we have been lucky enough to gain a Banking Hub, thanks to our local councillor who really pushed for it. Five different banks use it on each of the five days of the working week. You can also do Post Office stuff there which seems so wrong when the Post Office is directly across the road from it. So I continue to support our local post master.
ReplyDeleteMost US towns and cities have a post office as well as postal boxes near strip malls as well as outside the post office.
ReplyDeleteFedEx (separate from the post office) has their postal boxes too.
As for banks, there can be numerous banks in any city or town. They are all competing for customers. Some banks offer financial services such as investing in the stock market. Tellers are few and far between. Banks want customers to use the ATM.
Our post office is a couple of blocks away, but Canada Post loses money every year. I often wonder how long we will have a postal system.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Glad to see it still resembles a letter box!
ReplyDeleteOver here you can't go anywhere before bumping into a bank or credit union. They are everywhere! Don't know why there are so many of them!