Post Office

When they’re all gone you’ll be sorry you didn’t support it. The Post Office I mean.
If you’re lucky enough to live near a post office like this one then enjoy it. Too many Post Offices have been closed or amalgamated into larger, more profitable branches, which is a real shame when the local post office is a genuine must for any high street.
With such a lot of people around Albany road this Post Office does get overrun, and people in Albany road aren’t the fastest movers at the best of times (I’ve been trapped behind someone operating at 1mph more than once).
The Post Office itself is a useful place to pick up things like stationary, and I’m sure I don’t know where I’d buy packaging materials if it closed down. Also hosting the only Bureau de Change for miles, it’s more than just a Post Office after all.

There are many reason albany rd post office is one of the best in Cardiff.
The large floor space with multiple staff windows help the flow of customers getting the post sent. They have travel money exchange that can handle larger sums.
The shop has a good stock of all types of stationary and postage packaging from letters to boxes.
An onsite photo booth and external ATM cash machine are also available.

This is a great little post office that sell precisely everything that you want it to, and they have a particularly good stationary section. By no means as busy as the post office in the centre of town, this is a great one to pop into if you want to avoid the queues and spend your afternoon doing something productive instead.
There is something British and charming about any post office, I think. In this age we live in swiftly moving towards a paperless society, then maybe one day these premises will, all around the country, become obsolete. Perhaps they’ll just be empty brick shells that sell stamps to collectors and pencil sharpeners (although only artists would buy them). Balls of fluff will gather in the corners.
But no! We cannot let this happen, we must support our local establishments. Without the postal system, how would housewives have affairs? How would charities give you free pens? We would all have boarded up little slots in our front doors. Support! Support!
Support!

I was impressed with this post office (by the way, I’m finding this review really hard to write because I’m in my housemate’s room and she wants whale song on to help her concentrate and I keep getting distracted by their cries — I’ve written post office about twenty times…) because of the array of products it offers for such a small place. Well, actually, it’s bigger than it first appears. I came here because I needed to get a folder for a portfolio (which I’d left until the last minute to get, as I do) so I was EXTREMELY thankful for their stock. The woman who served me was lovely and smiley and I left with a spring in my step. I did also notice that (oh, the Spotify just started advertising… it’s quite disconcerting to come out from under the sea to find yourself learning how to vote in the general election) there was no queue for the actual post office (there were different desks, you see) so it’s good if you’re in a rush.