This busy and well-liked Post Office facing the junction with Buxton Road, Tradicia and the Cock, was everything a Post Office should be until 28 October 2007, when some fool withdrew the Sunday collection service (letters are currently collected up till 1.00pm)from the pillar box outside.

The Post Office is open from

Monday 8.30 to 17.30
Tuesday 9.00 to 17.30
Wednesday 9.00 to 17.30
Thursday 8.30 to 17.30
Friday 9.00 to 17.30
Saturday 9.00 to 16.00

Last letters are collected from Monday to Friday at 18.30 and 12.00noon on Saturday at the pillar box outside, beside which a Postman Pat ride was known to entertain local children for many years. It was replaced for a time with a tamer ABC 123 sports car ride, which has in turn been made obsolete by a horse ride.

The Post Office has four counters open usually, providing a good range of services; they hold copies of government forms like those needed for European Health Insurance Cards, Driving Licenses, selling stamps, acting as an agent for National Savings and Investments and the Alliance and Leicester bank and cashing various financial instruments for customers. The staff clearly know many of their regulars. There is a Bureau de Change counter inside and a free ATM machine for cash withdrawals outside. They can take instant passport photos for those who need them

The Post Office is to be found at the back of a well-stocked newsagent which sells a great range of magazines, foreign newspapers, cigarettes, drinks, sweets, greeting cards and stationary.

Above the counter are several adverts for local businesses some not too respectable (there is a firm which gives no address offering short-term loans for a hundred pounds).