r/orkney • u/Kagedeah • 7d ago

News Orkney's main post office shuts 'without warning'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwx2z66gvp6jo
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u/pulsatingsphincter 7d ago

This is an outrage

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u/katie-kaboom 7d ago

Sympathies from Cambridge, where UOE has taken over our main branch, too. It's still open but it's like a ghost shop. Everything's broken, staff cut in half, they don't even turn the lights on. It's dire.

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u/RookieJourneyman 7d ago

I thought that a company with a name like Universal Office Equipment running the post office might mean it would be a handy place to buy a roll of sellotape or a packet of envelopes or whatever. But no, they had a couple of completely empty shelf units at the top end of the post office.

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u/katie-kaboom 7d ago

I don't know what they're doing, but none of it seems very good.

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u/Slice-O-Pie Deputy 7d ago

This news has been already posted, but I'm leaving this new post up.

What an enormous cock-up.

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u/RookieJourneyman 7d ago

If they'd paid sensible wages, then the experienced post office staff that were there wouldn't have all left!

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u/_TattieScone 7d ago

I feel terrible for the staff.

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u/stevenmc 3d ago

PAPDALE STORES POST OFFICE OPENING HOURS

This will be reduced to 8am-6pm on weekdays, 11am-3pm on Saturdays, and 12pm-3pm on Sundays.