Only 30 Post Offices Left In Norway!

Here's an interesting read...Norway is to have one post office per county and the remainder of postal services are to be provided by "postal counters" in department stores and other retail establishments:

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/06...or-shutdown/

I'm sure more than one worldwide postal administration is looking to see how this works out and whether or not the same approach could be used by other countries.

i am sure we will copy what the Canadians are doing and have post office counters in seven-elevens before long !!

Here in New Westminster,B.C. with a population of 65,000, we lost
are post office years ago. My nearest postal outlet is a 7-eleven.

There are two corporate (? I don't know what to call them actually) Post Offices in Halifax and many other associate post offices (we think of them that way) in back corners of drug stores like Shopper's and Lawtons.

The corporate ones are a business solutions post office connected to the sorting plant and a philatelic centre post office downtown for the tourists on the waterfront and cruise ships.

We still talk about the associate post offices as real post offices as they are presented to us this way. The employees wear Canada Post uniforms but are paid by the drug stores.

The Post Office I remember 30 to 40 years ago that I went to to get money orders to send to stamp companies in the States was in the back of a drug store so they were doing it back then in the 70's and 80's.

There used to be many regional or area post offices that are now closed that were Canada Post corporate (using this for lack of a better word). The mail would be sorted there I think, before the large sorting plant was built. Modernization, machines, etc, etc.

Well of the 12000 or so post offices in the UK, I believe that less than 400 are actually managed by the post office itself. The rest are 'sub post offices' which tend to be in the local store etc.

I had no idea! That info on POs is a shock to me!

Our POs are still around in health numbers but not many PO workers would know the difference between a gummed or self adhesive stamp.

The body is still there but the POs have lost there soul, so to speak.