Preston Road Post Office

This local Post Office is a perfect example of why local post offices should be kept open! It is so useful– cutting a good hour and a half from any necessary trip to post a letter– the closest one otherwise is in the center of Brighton! And it is such a great post office. It reminds me of the one in my Grandmother’s small village– it has that higgledy-​piggledy friendly feel. After several trips the staff knew me and ask me how I was doing. It is actually a post office/​cornershop combined with the post office desk at the back. There are stacks and stacks of useful and enjoyable things to look at as you wait to post your parcel (queues happen at lunch and around the school run) including an array of magazines dangerously positioned where the queue stands– with a sign telling you off for reading and not buying! The post office staff are excellent– great for advice. The corner shop is so brilliant, as well as the magazines they stock cards, stationery, boxes of chocolates, wrapping paper… you name it they have it crammed on one of the floor to ceiling shelves. Bring back the local post office/​cornershop!