Article: How to make a success of running a local post office: post offices are an important part of communities across the UK but to run them well retailers need to make sure they offer new products and services and be prepared to invest some money.(Retail Surgery)

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Dean Holborn

Owner, Holborns

We took over the post office in our village in 2006 after the original one closed and invested money to make space for it.

Having a post office is important to a c-store like ours because it gives people another reason to visit the shop and it reinforces the shop's place in the community. If the post office had gone, people would have had to go elsewhere and taken some business with them so it was worth doing it.

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