A new post office service for customers in Pentre

The Post Office, in collaboration with Payzone, will be opening a new post office service at Budgens, Pentre House, Chester Road, Pentre CH5 2DT, commencing on Saturday 18th October.

The service will be one their Drop & Collect branches, which offers a lighter, flexible branch formats developed to take advantage of the opportunities a vibrant, and increasingly competitive, parcels market offers.

The new Drop & Collect at Budgens, will offer post office services from a handheld device, providing convenient access for customers to bill payments and prepaid parcel collections and returns. However, more complex services like personal and business banking will not be available at this branch.

If there are any unforeseen circumstances which mean the opening date changes, posters will be displayed in store to let customers know.

A wider range of post office services are available from the nearby branches at Queensferry Post Office, 55 Station Road, Queensferry CH5 1SU and Garden City Sealand Post Office, 35 Welsh Road, Garden City, Deeside CH5 2HU.

The latest available branch information can be found on their website:

www.postoffice.co.uk/branch-finder

Sam Rowlands, Member of the Welsh Parliament for North Wales, has welcomed the news.

Mr Rowlands said:

“I am pleased to see the introduction of the new Drop & Collect service at Budgens store on Chester Road.

“It will be a great addition for local people who want simple access to some post office services including parcel collections and returns and I hope it will be well supported.”