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A no expense sign (ha ha ha)
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This is what the
Post Office’s External Affairs Manager has to
say about the continued closure of the post office in Hamlet Court
Road :-
Thank you for you email. I can confirm that Westcliff on Sea Post Office, located at 150 Hamlet Court Road, SS0 7LN, is temporarily closed for operational reasons
I
would also like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience
caused by the temporary closure of this service, and to reassure you
that we are investigating how services can be restored to the local
community, including the possibility of the Post Office being run by
Temporary Postmaster, if practical
In
the meantime, should your receive any inquiries from local residents
or businesses, the nearest alternative Post Office branches are:
Southend-on-Sea
Post Office – 207 High Street, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1LN – 0.8
miles
Sutton Road Post
Office – 88 Sutton Road, Southend-on-Sea SS2 5EW – 1.2 miles
Leigh Road Post
Office – 82 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea SS9 1BZ – 1.9 miles
When I have
any further information I will update you. However, in the
meantime, if I can be of any further assistance then please do
contact me.
This is a far from
satisfactory. I cannot say for certain how long this post office has
been closed, but it has to be over a month. There is no close
convenient alternative. We currently have no post office for all of
Westcliff-on-Sea. Quite how many people this affects I really do not
know, but it surely runs into thousands, possibly tens of thousands.
I was never keen on
the idea of post offices being moved into the like of W H Smith. Is
this further evidence that this drive to economise comes at the cost
of customer access?
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| This once housed a post office |
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