Nz: Where Is Kendal?

Above and beyond the call of duty!

Thanks for contacting them, Rod. Your diligence is very impressive! So it looks like the closed Kendal Post Office was indeed located on Kendal Avenue.

Indeed Kim, Thanks
the trick is, it appears these were Bank Branches, so the name relates to the Branch, not the suburb.
That's why Google text strings were failing.
The kudos lies with individuals within NZ post. Great service.
Cheers

PS I wrote to a Car mechanic "kendals" looking for answers,
they suspected it was Kendal ave, but did not recall any post office,
so the locals were confused as well :)
I cannot recall ever seeing a post office branch within a bank in Aust
but I suppose they did exist in remote areas.

We have one post office in a little town next to us, that is in a delicatessen.

When I grew up, we had a neighborhood post office in our drugstore! It was considered a contract station. The lone clerk was a college student, who technically worked for the drugstore. She was supernice and also let me get the plate blocks and fed me info from the postal bulletins (this was before I knew there were stamp magazines). Rarely find clerks like that here in the US now.

Glad that there are such "customer service" oriented postal workers elsewhere. Indeed, abundant kudos to those employees at NZ Post!

Such a great response from the NZPO.

Thanks, everyone, for looking into this so thoroughly. This is the first time I've come across an office that was not named after a locality as such. I very much doubt that you'd find a similar example in Australia.

It certainly does happen here. My local post office is called 'Burnley North', because it's at the northern end of Burnley Street, and some distance from the suburb of Burnley, which is a recent creation, and was named after ... the street.

These days, they'll name a post office after anything and anyone.

In an adjacent county, there's a city with a street called post office street -- although there is no longer a post office there. I never did figure out whether the former post office was named after the street, or the street named after the post office!

tonymacg, the exception that proves the rule!