The reopening of a Carlton post office – which has been closed for over seven weeks – has finally taken place.
Carlton Hill Post Office, which had been based within the old McColls store, had been shut since Thursday, January 19 – but it finally reopened its doors this morning.
The new Post Office is contained within a new Premier store under new management with an independent Postmaster..
Premier have over 4000 stores and all are locally owned by independent retailers.
The opening hours are Monday to Sunday: 6am – 10pm.
This provides 112 hours of Post Office service a week for the convenience of customers.
Richard Clark, Post Office Network Provision Lead, said: “We are delighted to have restored Post Office services to Carlton Hill as we know how important a Post Office is to a community.”
Local resident, James McGill said he was ‘delighted’ that the local post office had now finally been reopened.
He told Gedling Eye: “Finally it’s open. The last two months have been hell for someone like me that struggles with mobility. I’ve got poor mobility and had to get a bus to the nearest Post Office so this is a godsend.”
Previous communication from the Post Office suggested that the Post Office was due to reopen on February 24 however this failed to materialise as further works were required, much to the dismay of the locals.
The Post Office had previously been housed in the McColls store but services stopped when the chain went into administration and although it was saved by Morrisons in a £190m rescue bid, the branch in Carlton Hill, was one of six of McColl’s Nottinghamshire stores to shut.
