A POST office, which was trialled in a Penarth shop, will now be based there permanently.
In March 2021 a post office branch was trialled at SPAR on Brockhill Way in the Lavernock area of Penarth – offering basic mail and bill-payment services.
Following a review of the trial, the post office will be permanently based here – with services to expand, including banking services.
It will be open seven days a week, with opening times available at the bottom of this article.
Lavernock Post Office now offers the standard range of services that you normally get at a post office.
This includes Christmas stamps, Drop & Go for frequent senders and click and collect service to collect parcels from a range of companies. It also includes:
• Mailing services;
• Withdrawals,deposits and payments. This includes post office card accounts, personal and business banking, enveloped cheque deposits, barcoded deposit slips, postal orders, Moneygram, automated bill payments and key recharging;
• Rod fishing licences;
• Travel insurance referrals;
• Mobile top-ups and e-vouchers.
Lavernock Post Office is not the only one based in Penarth - there is also one based on Glebe Street, with both among more than 11,500 branches of the post office across the UK.
4,000 of these branches are open seven days a week - including Lavernock Post Office - and 99.7 per cent of the population in the UK live within three miles of a post office.
The opening times for Lavernock Post Office are as follows:
- Monday: 7am-7pm;
- Tuesday: 7am-7pm;
- Wednesday: 7am-7pm;
- Thursday: 7am-7pm;
- Friday: 7am-7pm;
- Saturday: 7.30am-7pm;
- Sunday: 8am-1pm.
The SPAR which houses Lavernock Post Office is open from 7am to 8pm on weekdays, from 7.30am to 8pm on Saturdays, and from 8am to 7pm on Sundays.
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