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royal mail counters in supermarkets

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  • dada44
    dada44 Posts: 247 Forumite
    it makes a lot of sense

    the norway post office group have a nice website http://www.posten.no/en/
  • soolin
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    custardy wrote: »
    where do you people live?
    We have 7 day supermarket/POs here in Edinburgh

    Custardy I am in London and don't have any local PO, not even crown ones that are even open STurday afternoons.

    The small ones close at 12, the crown one is still 2pm but with no collections after 12.30. The main mail centre now closes at 2.30 I think, it used to be 2pm.
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  • custardy
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    soolin wrote: »
    Custardy I am in London and don't have any local PO, not even crown ones that are even open STurday afternoons.

    The small ones close at 12, the crown one is still 2pm but with no collections after 12.30. The main mail centre now closes at 2.30 I think, it used to be 2pm.


    yeah,the majority of POs are like that
    however we have late ones with supermarkets eg.
    • Monday 08:00 20:00
    • Tuesday 08:00 20:00
    • Wednesday 08:00 20:00
    • Thursday 08:00 20:00
    • Friday 08:00 20:00
    • Saturday 08:00 20:00
    • Sunday 09:00 18:00
  • soolin
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    custardy wrote: »
    yeah,the majority of POs are like that
    however we have late ones with supermarkets eg.

    I've noticed in the past that we seem to get less services in many areas than those further North.
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  • custardy
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    soolin wrote: »
    I've noticed in the past that we seem to get less services in many areas than those further North.

    but our streets aren't paved with gold ;)
  • dada44
    dada44 Posts: 247 Forumite
    soolin, i wonder if this is because there are fewer post offices up north. or whether the north spends more money on post, communicating with the south. i'd imagine this may be the case with businesses
  • My local post office is in the coop in town. Open 8.30-5.30, so not quite as long as the shop, but I think they are normal post office hours...
  • Hermia
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    custardy wrote: »
    where do you people live?
    We have 7 day supermarket/POs here in Edinburgh

    That is why I had a buyer in Edinburgh complain that an item he won on Saturday night wasn't with him on Monday morning. He claimed all areas had a PO that was open on a Sunday. I live in the country and not even the main sorting office is open late. I love the way people assume every area is like the one they live in.
  • custardy
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    Hermia wrote: »
    That is why I had a buyer in Edinburgh complain that an item he won on Saturday night wasn't with him on Monday morning. He claimed all areas had a PO that was open on a Sunday. I live in the country and not even the main sorting office is open late. I love the way people assume every area is like the one they live in.

    still wrong though
    they are open. it doesnt change the mail centre collections/sorting shift patterns
    Nothing posted Sunday would be delivered Monday
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    There is a Post Office in Tesco Brent Park, Neasden thats open 8am-8pm and 11am to 5pm on Sundays, its been that at least 20yrs to my knowledge
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

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