Crwys Road Post Office

There is something eminently British about this Post Office. Perhaps it’s the sturdy, rustic charm of the old block building that speaks of immovable, unflappable stiff upper lippedness. Maybe it’s the old school post box outside that seems to hearken back to Doctor Who and that era of public services. Or, and I’m just throwing this out there, maybe it’s because it’s thoroughly useless, filled with old people and never does anything on time. I don’t know. What do you think?
You may have already deduced the tone of my review from that paragraph, and if so, I have just one thing to say to you, and that is «welcome to the 21^st century Mr. Holmes, how ever did you escape your literary prison and come to be in the real world?»
This Post Office is a thoroughly useless affair, dedicated more to the feeding and protection of parrots than to the posting of letters. Now, understand, I’ve got nothing against parrots. They’re lovely birds, filled with vim and vigour and can bring joy to any person with a soul. However, there’s a time and a place for old ladies to faff about with their parrots and perhaps when I’m trying to post 50 kilograms of eBay stuff in order to pay my rent is NOT the ideal bleeding time, and is, instead, very likely to get the damn bird bludgeoned to death with a poorly wrapped, second hand X-​Box to a soundtrack of cheers and whoops coming from everyone else waiting in the queue.
Use the Albany Road Post Office. Or just run the post to its destination yourself. It’ll be faster and less hassle.

As Post Offices go this has to be one of the smallest with the least functionality. Don’t expect to change currency here. Their services are handy in the area but I always prefer to go to others as it can be busy due to few staff.
You will find the typical cards, envelopes and helpful stationary but they really don’t cater well for parcels. My advice is to use them for posting letters but not much more than that.

This area is situated around the corner from Highfields free church, where I attend and will discuss in another review. This place is just like another Albany road area, there seems to be many of these places situated around Cardiff.
The Post Office is a neat small little place that is ideal for locals.
They just seem to keep popping up all over Cardiff and are becoming very popular even during the age of this recent recession. Often because the shops have handy and affordable prices.
Buses are accessible to all of the locations and areas in this city. There are many different shops here; Amara’s gift shop — where I bought a dream catcher, a wind chime and some Buddha stones, The Co Op, Lorenza’s Italian Risotto restaurant, The Bojangles Badge shop, charity shops, cafes, pubs, travel shops, fabric shops, accessory shops, and house decorating shops. It is another great place to socialise, to relax with friends and family.
It is amazing to wonder why we need a town shopping centre.

This is an exceptionally handy post office, which is often full of students writing long, lavish letter home (yeah, right). 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!
This is a classic little 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. Perhaps writing you dissertation. Nice.
Support!

A post office is a post office I guess and this is like many others. It’s a pretty small one but situated on busy Crwys Road it’s located very conviently for locals.
Offering all the usual post office services it also sells cards, stationary and a few randomn gifts and games.
The main attraction of this post office though, and one that sets it apart from many others is the parrot. Yes really, I did say the parrot
Perched behind the counter, I think it belongs to one of the ladies that works there. I’m not sure what type it is — it’s a medium size and it has got feathers, beady eyes and a mean looking beak It sometimes gets a bit possesive and squawks at customers. Either way its fantastic to watch whilst you queue up to buy your stamps!