Battlefield Road Post Office

Have been using this post office for 3 years now. Always get great service. The staff are hardworking and friendly. Would recommend.

Don’t expect anything other than great service here.
Yes, it’s a bleak looking shop but so what. Audrey behind the counter is a gem. Super helpful and friendly to all the customers that come in.
This is more of a sub post office, you can do the usual posting of letters and parcels but you can’t get a passport or tax disc here.
They do have a photo booth though.

I love this little place. It does what the sign says — and nothing else. It is exactly what a Post Office should be.
There’s no pretending it’s something else. There’s no ‘Birthday’s’ or ‘Thorntons’ concessionary here trying to take advantage of poor sods who’ve only just remembered an important card or parcel worthy event.
Best of all, due to it’s bleakness and purely functional purpose, it’s usually really quiet and the few people who may be queued do so in an orderly fashion. There’s no dilly or dallying going on. No-​one jumping in and out of the queue in order to pick up some vitally needed bendy pen with fluff stuck to it’s top or some such nonsense. No sir.
It’s a small local Post Office with allows you to post stuff. Bravo.

Well, it is a post office. It has a cash machine outside. But where most post offices double as a newsagent, a gift shop or a Co-​op, this one is just a post office. I had to look twice to check it was actually still open: the interior looks like a pound shop after it has been stripped of its fittings.
I am actually surprised by how desolate this shop appears. They do stamps, send parcels, but seem to have no other means of income. A strange experience, since the staff are always behind glass, making it feel like a high security unit.

Looking a bit like how I imagine a Post Office would after some sort of terrible apocalypse, this P. O has been entirely stripped of all fixtures and fittings, has a bare wooden floor, and staff behind bulletproof glass. All you can do here is send parcels or buy stamps. That’s it.
It’s bizarre, but this Post Office sticks in my mind more than others, and in all honesty I quite like it as I can imagine that I’m an extra from Mad Max when I’m in here, sending out a few postcards before a dangerous trip out on the wasteland.