Partick Post Office

Sometimes the queue is pretty long, but the staff member who served me today was so helpful. I asked for a courier, but he told me about a cheaper, also secure option that was just as fast.
As I paid with card, he offered cash back, and also started telling me about their competitive exchange rates, and travel card that you can top up via app while on holiday.
How he was so helpful and chipper I’ll never know, because that postman pat thing is the most cruel form of office torture I’ve ever come across.
On most of my visits I’ve been greeted by staff who are less than sunshine and rainbows– and no wonder because being treated to that postman pat song at regular intervals is enough to drive me mad on me relatively short visits.
So, mr helpful post office guy– all these three stars are for you! And whoever is in charge needs to come up with a creative way to dispose of that thing sometime soon.

There are less Post Offices around these days, and for me it’s a toss-​up whether this one or the Hillhead one near Oran Mor is closest to walk to. Most often I end up at the Hillhead one as I usually have other stuff to get in Byres Road, but I secretly prefer the Partick one, as it’s still a dedicated post office and not a counter stuck at the back of a shop full of a maze of shelving stuffed with greetings cards and other crap that you wouldn’t even normally bother to look at if you weren’t visiting the post office bit.
The Partick one is mercifully free of third-​party product, it has plenty of space for the inevitable queue to snake back and forth, and although frequently busy, it’s usually well staffed enough that things move along moderately rapidly.
I’ve also had occasion to come and collect parcels here when I’ve missed the delivery (or the postman couldn’t be bothered to attempt the delivery), although I’m not quite sure how that works as usually you have to go to the main sorting depot in Clarence Drive.
The only downside is that the repetitive musical jingle from the Postman Pat ride will drive you insane while you wait. I don’t know how the staff put up with it, but I guess the brain must tune it out after a while. I’m always tempted to unplug the cursed thing when I’m in there; or even worse resort to some major remodelling of Pat’s van with a large blunt instrument.

Luckily any parcel deliveries I miss go to the Thornwood Post Office, which is just further along Dumbarton Road. This is good because Partick Post Office always has a long queue and the service is so. painfully. slow. Perhaps this may be attributed to the overwhelming amount of coffin-​dodgers that come here for all their postal needs? Slow motion with me… I’ve made the mistake a few times of coming to this location, only to stand and wait
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Despite the convenient location, the service is massively slow. Next!

On the off chance that any parcel you are waiting on from the Royal Mail actually arrives instead of ending up in the locker of one of the boys from the sorting office, then you’ll almost certainly end up queing here for it.
Postmen can rarely be bothered getting you to sign for parcels, so will just stick a «collect at office» slip under your door to save them the inconvenience of doing their job. This gives you the pleasure of cancelling your entire day to spend it in the queue here, which is on some levels an annoyance, but also adds to the excitement of getting a parcel, a buzz that never gets old.

A typical Glasgow post office and sadly if you get an item delivered that does not fit into the mail box then you will more than likely end up going here more than you want to. On more than one occasion I have been given a slip without a nock and had to go to the Partick Post Office. The queues are always long and the opening hours are rubbish so you will no doubt spend much of your time looking at the gray walls and the little window. You will not want to be here but as with many things in life you will have to!

This is a fairly large post office and is conveniently located opposite Partick railway station. As there are so few post offices now, it is always very busy and it is virtually always necessary to queue. Staff are not overly friendly but have a good knowledge of postal and royal mail services. It is usually well stocked with information leaflets. There are counters inside where you can fill in forms, address envelopes etc. It is open weekdays till 5.30pm and on a Saturday till 3.30pm and there is a post box on the outside of the building if you don’t actually need to get into the post office itself.