Article: Country Matters: Post office? It's next to the potatoes

THE post office in our Suffolk village shop is open only in the mornings now. Its licence to sell stamps and to dispense pensions all day has been revoked. If you want to post a parcel after 1pm, you can either drive it three miles to Woodbridge or, if you haven't got a car and can't scrounge a lift, you can forget about it until tomorrow, which is also the time when the next bus will run.

If you do drive to Woodbridge, you won't be able to post your parcel at the main office in Cumberland Street because the main office in Cumberland Street has been closed. The biggest post

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