Think of the local Post Office if you can do it without grimacing - never less than about 30 people queuing, using up your whole lunch hour to get served, then finally when you get to the front they try and sell you Post Office insurance or broadband when all you want to do is get out. Don't even think about asking for sellotape or else risk the wrath of hell!
Now imagine Mail Boxes, etc. about 30 seconds further down the road from the Chiswick Post Office. I went in there a couple of days ago to send something I'd sold on eBay. Not only did they actually look happy, something the Post Office hasn't managed in all the years I've been in there, but they also helped me box-up a difficult item and happily offered me parcel tape and a marker pen - all done with a smile, without queuing at all and at the equivalent price of the Post Office.
I really wish I'd discovered them years ago and shall be using their other branches in other places I visit in London.
Thanks Mailboxes.
Post Office, never again, goodbye, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, see ya later alligator! read more