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Fears that Wellsford has lost retail post services for good after the sudden closure of the shop at 199 Rodney Street on April 12 are being allayed by NZ Post.
Head of retail operations Andrew McKenzie said last week it was actively looking for another agency to provide postal services and sales, after the relationship with its current operator ended suddenly “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
“NZ Post Shop Wellsford will no longer operate postal and bill paying services there, but we are already having positive conversations with other potential businesses in the community,” he said.
“We are currently looking to partner with another agency as quickly as possible to bring post and bill pay services back to Wellsford and apologise for any inconvenience this has caused our customers.”
The first most Wellsford people knew about the closure was the posting of a ‘Closure of Postal Services’ notice on the shop window on Wednesday, April 12. It advised that, while PO boxes were staying where they were “until further notice”, the nearest postal, courier and bill pay services were now at the Warkworth Paper Plus post shop or the NZ Post Centre at Kaiwaka Food Mart.
The closure was followed a flurry of frustrated and angry posts from Wellsford area residents on community social media pages, many of whom viewed the closure as another nail in the local retail coffin.
However, NZ Post insists it is looking to set up a new agency in Wellsford as soon as possible, with PO boxes remaining at the old site in the meantime and the public post box outside the shop continuing to be cleared daily.
Info: NZ Post on 0800 501501
