worst post office ive ever used.
staff are clueless; always try to overcharge me, and some cannot understand english; trying to post overseas seems to be a particular impossibility;
-"id like to send this airmail to america, please".
~"first class?'
-"no, just airmail. to america."
~'where's it going?"
-"america. normal airmail, please."
~"you want signed for?"
-"no thanks, normal airmail"
~"where's it going?"
-"america".
~ "you want insurance?"
nightmare.
being a large space, the owners have divvied off sections round the edge to extra 'businesses', so there are now grumpy looking dudes doing phone unlocking, watch repairs etc. its always dirty, with rubbish strewn around the floor, marks on the wall etc, and dodgy looking wiring hanging out of the ceiling in a couple of places. there are shabby stands selling cheap and useless stuff like cheap paperbacks no one ever wants to read or buy.
worst of all are the post office staff though- most of whom are REALLY surly, incompetent to the point of potentially deliberate dishonesty.
they seem incapable of basic common sense; a couple of times parcel force have unhelpfully decided to leave parcels for me there, rather than back at the parcel force depot. every single time kentish town post office staff have been unable to find my parcels, meaning ive had to get parcel force to collect from kt, then take to their depot- all taking a couple of days and much hassle.
most annoying is that they routinely try to overchage me; things i know to be small parcels they try to over charge as large parcels; i then post them correctly as small ones at camden. read more