[LINK] UK Royal Mail sale - AusPost outlet general retailing

[Kim Holburn]

On 2013/Sep/13, at 1:08 AM, Robin Whittle wrote:

> Jan wrote of the UK Royal Mail:
> 
>> I wonder if they are also experimenting with some of the digital 
>> services Aussie Post is? Or turning their post offices into sundry 
>> stores? I was in our local this week and saw everything from a 
>> barbecue grill to a jellyfish aquarium. That is not a joke.
> 
> Today I saw at the local Australia Post outlet (formerly thought of as a
> Post Office) a shelf of chocolates, jelly beans and I think bottles of
> Coke.  This was between two of the three counters for serving customers.
> For years there has been shelves full of knick-nacks, impossibly
> inexpensive inkjet printers, cellphones, memory cards, stationery, CDs,
> DVDs etc. etc.



While waiting in the queue for a bunch of old people to pay their rent?

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