Oldham Post Office

Oldham’s Post Office is one of those post offices where everything is more high tech, for example in this post office, it follows the layout and ways of the bigger post office in Manchester, which has ticketed waiting and machines to post, which often are the quicker way, and easy to use.
Oldham’s Post Office is quite central, and close to the city centre, like most «City» post offices, such as Middleton, Rochdale and Manchester.
This post office may follow the same approach as Manchester, but as expected it isn’t as big, or as busy, so it means instead of having 10 + people ahead of you, it might just be half a dozen on a busy day, if you do want to go to a staffed checkout, and instead of a short wait at the self service tills, you normally can get started straight away.
I used the self service tills on my visit, however these sometimes can not be used, for example if you are trying to post something, with postage already paid, if you do want a proof of posting. I do like how these machines give you both a proof of posting and receipt, as normally manned checkouts gives you either one or the other.
The machines did seem easy enough to use, with everything being there, however it can get a little confusing, as you do need a member of staff to confirm everything, before you do get your stamp, and then collect it, which in my opinion, ruins the need for a manned checkout, as you are going to have to wait for someone anyway, I think you should just be able to post them afterwards and the stamps should print, especially for people in a rush, who don’t want to deal with staff, when you do already know what you were doing.
The staff here did seem okay, although a little patronising into how the machine works, and they did bother me a little, I knew what I was getting and they had to get the ticket for me? She seemed like she wasn’t really needed to just be standing there, as it was pretty straight forward anyway. The staff issue is one of the main reasons of the lower rating for this post office.
This is a reasonable post office, they is better, such as Manchester, yet it does beat other post offices by far, such as Rochdale and Middleton, but minor issues with the staff and scan it yourself machines means I can’t give higher than 3 stars.