Birchgrove Post Office

This Post office not only provides standard post office counter services but also doubles up as a shop. It is well stocked with magazines, papers etc as well as grocery products and a fridge stocked with ready made sandwiches cold drinks etc. The shop has a small range of books, adults and childrens’ including some from the Topsy and Tim range which was a favourite of my sisters as a child! They also stocked some postcards as well as birthday cards although I must admit their range was rather uninspiring.

This is a classic little local post office that sell precisely everything that you want it to. By no means as busy as the post office in the centre of town, this is a great one to pop into if you want to avoid the queues and spend your afternoon doing something productive instead.
There is something British and charming about any post office, I think. In this age we live in swiftly moving towards a paperless society, then maybe one day these premises will, all around the country, become obsolete. Perhaps they’ll just be empty brick shells that sell stamps to collectors and pencil sharpeners (although only artists would buy them). Balls of fluff will gather in the corners.
But no! We cannot let this happen, we must support our local establishments. Without the postal system, how would housewives have affairs? How would charities give you free pens? We would all have boarded up little slots in our front doors. Support! Support!
Support!