The Post Office

Postmistress: Annie Rogers

        

      Assistant Postmistress: Shirley Thomas 

 

POST OFFICE SOS

As I am sure most of you know by now, we were not included in the Post Office closure list this time, so there will remain a Little Milton Post Office for the foreseeable future.

 

However, this year Shirley is retiring, which leaves me with the problem of staffing. Your Post Office would have had to become a part-time office a long time ago if it had not been for Shirley’s dedication and commitment to help me keep open and for that you should all be extremely grateful, but the fact remains if I cannot find help to cover at best the hours that Shirley is working, then it will have to become a mornings or afternoons only office, leaving it very vulnerable if there are more closures.

 

I therefore urgently need two or three helpers to work a few hours a week each, to be trained by the Autumn, so that it will help me to still keep Little Milton Post Office a full time office, with potentially more footfall when it moves to the new site.

 

If you feel that you can help please come in and have a word with us. We look forward to seeing you.

Sincerely Annie R

 

VILLAGE SHOP & POST OFFICE

PROGRESS REPORT

I am very pleased to say that we now have all of the finance necessary to build and run the new Village Shop and Post Office. We have had confirmation of a loan for £20,000 from Co-Operative Finance, which together with the brilliant offers of support from the village of £13,244, will bring us to our target .

 

We are still wrestling with the legal issues which seem to re-appear every time we think we have found a solution to them. However we do believe that by October at the latest we should be able to press buttons to begin the building, which should be completed early in 2009. We had hoped to complete before Christmas 2008, but we now know that the bridge at Milton Common over the M 40 is to close for 6 months from September 2008 until March 2009, so passing trade is likely to be halved for that period. It does however allow us to make sure we have everything in place for when the bridge re-opens.

 

We will be writing a personal letter very soon to everyone who kindly offered money or volunteered to work in the shop.

 

Thanks to everyone for your continued magnificent support.

 

Stuart McGill on behalf of the Village Shop & Post Office Committee

 

 

A POETIC TRIBUTE to our POST OFFICE and VILLAGE SHOP

"......A little of old England, a tiny village store,

A friendly place, a cheery smile. May it last for ever more."

From the poem 'Conservation', dedicated to our village store, by Shirley Thomas

 

  Little Milton Post Office

Services and goods at your local Post Office

 

ü      Full Postal Services                            Banking Services                      Information Services

ü      Stationery                                            Local Papers                             Books

ü      Toys                                                      Dry Cleaning                           Fresh Milk

ü      Fresh Bread & Cakes                         Confectionery                          Free Range Eggs

ü      Ice Creams **                                       Special Jams & Preserves

NEW FROM THURSDAY COTTAGE

              -     Chilli Jam

             -     Spiced Apple Jam

                Also now stocking from their DIABETIC RANGE

                 Diabetic: Three Fruit Marmalade & Strawberry Jam

 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

 EVERY TRANSACTION COUNTS

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