Glad you don't have a Hounslow Postal address?
Just imagine that you didn't live in Isleworth or Brentford but come under the postal district covered by Hounslow Post Office (Royal Mail).You one-day receive one of those postcards asking you to go along to that Enquiry Office, Royal Mail in Holloway Street..because someone has sent you an envelope with sufficient postage on it...or it's a package that can't be delivered through your letterbox.You work elsewhere during the week ..so you have to go to that Holloway Street...before say noon...and its pouring with rain and the queue is long and there's a good 15-30 minute wait. I've seen them queueing..and it looks so depressing! ITS ALL OUTDOORS TOO!!Then you might decide to pop along to the front office to post a parcel...or renew a licence..and on somedays that queue could be worse! (Its not always like it..but often!)In the meantime the Local Authority are to spend £2-5million pounds and more on a new conference facility..when a beautifully furnished Royal Mail reception area...would bring more smiles..even if it was fitted in a row of Portacabins. Winter approaches. Make sure your friends put the correct stamps on mail addressed to you!! Otherwise you might have to queue up in one of those ugly parts of Hounslow!!
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