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!)
ReplyDeleteThe 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'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.
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