Post Office

I use the Post Office a lot as I sell a lot of stuff on ebay. I used to go to the main post office in town on a Saturday and would end up queuing for over half an hour and would often get dirty looks from other customers when they saw that I had a big bag of items to post. With the new system of normal letters, large letters and parcels - then the over and under certain weights; it is much more confusing to know how much things are going to cost to post. However, the people who run the post office next to where I work are a delight. I go in in the morning with my bag of post and he sorts it all out during the day when it is not so busy and when he has time ...  Read the complete review

I am really torn with the post office. On the one hand, it's our national postal service, enabling letters to travel around the country and internationally reasonably quickly for not all that much money. On the other hand they drive me completely batty. I can't work out how to post an item now without going into the post office and asking what class it falls into. And I don't think I'm alone. I quite frequently recieve letters or parcels with little 'inadequate postage paid' cards coming with them, which means I have to travel into town to get my parcel, and pay a fee too! I try to post parcels through work whenever possible, as we get a reduced ...  Read the complete review

Not so long ago there were post office branches everywhere you went. They were not restricted to large towns or cities, they were in all small villages and rows of shops. People were dependent on the post office to send anything. Soon other courier companies started opening and the post office appeared to undergo costcutting exercises and started closing branches. I think this put a lot of people of using the post office, it was no longer a trip down the road to the local branch, but a further journey, often more difficult to park etc. This gave other companies the gap in the market they needed to jump in and seize the post office custom. Another recent ...  Read the complete review

We are seeing less of them of the high streets and they are always in the news but they are something that I use regularly and it is coming up to that time of year when we are all sending letters and parcels all over the place so maybe we underestimate how much we need them. My local Post Office store is in my town centre and I use it on a regular basis so my review is not based on one visit. The Post Office I use is at the very back of a Co-Op store and is a fairly small Post Office with about 3 staff normally on the counters and full of the regulars so whenever I go in I normally find myself in a bit of a queue which moves at a fairly slow pace due to a ...  Read the complete review

The Post Office, Now where do I start. I am torn with the post office, Now I run an online retailing business which is not yet big enough to have its own postal service so I rely on the post office and royal mail combined. However a good few problems are caused by this. I have a few post offices in my local area and although I tend to use the main town one I often visit the village post offices when out and about. The service in my main post office is patchy depending completely on the member of staff. Some being polite and chatty everytime you see them and others simply always being miserable. The out of town post offices are 50/50 one in ...  Read the complete review