I hate the long queues at my post office.  In the good old days the post office was in the local general store.  I'd come home from work, there would be a card to collect a parcel and I could just get back into the car and drive to the shop to get it - at all hours.  If the shop was still open at 10pm the post office would be too.  Brilliant.

Unfortunately we now have a 'proper post office' in a shopping mall with all that it entails - limited opening hours during the week, difficulty finding a parking space, not open Saturday afternoons, no Sunday service at all, long queues...and not surprising on occasions, some very surly staff.....

It was the worst thing ever closing down the sub agency.  What a price we paid for 'progress'. Sigh.