Post Office gets set for refurbishment

Church Square Post Office, 23a Church Street, is to be refurbished to create a modern environment for customers as well as providing significantly increased opening hours.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Oct 2013, 08:40 BST

As part of Post Office plans to modernise the network and extend the opening hours for customers, Church Square Post Office will continue to have three serving positions.

These will be a mixture of one screened and one open plan counter positions and a Post Office serving point at the retail counter – a new concept for delivering Post office services with Post Office products and services available alongside retail transactions during shop opening hours.

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Following the changes the branch itself will open Monday to Friday; 8.30am to 5.30pm and Saturday; 9am to 5.30pm.

The Post Office service point will be available at the retail counter Monday to Sunday; 8am to 9pm.

This will give customers 91 hours a week to access Post Office products and services.

To enable work to take place the branch will be closed from Tuesday, November 19, 2013.

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Church Square’s new-look Post Office opens at the same location on Wednesday, November 27 at 1pm.

During the refurbishment alternative Post Offices in the area include:

Banbridge Post Office, 26 Newry Street, Banbridge and Laurencetown Post Office, 193 Banbridge Road, Gilford, Craigavon.

Post Office Regional Network Manager, Suzanne Richardson, said: “We understand how important having a Post Office is to customers in the area.

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“We are confident that this new modern Post Office service will meet the needs of the local community and secure services for the future.”

She added: “The modernisation is part of a major investment programme to convert the Post Office network to new-style branches and this investment, the largest in the history of the Post Office, makes a commitment to no more branch closure programmes.”

The Post Office, which is now independent of Royal Mail, is the largest retail network in the UK, with over 11,700 branches.

It is also one of the fastest growing financial services companies and is developing its online and telephony services.

For further information contact the helpline on 0845 611 2970 (8.15am-6pm, Monday-Friday and 8.30am-2pm, on Saturday).

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