This lunch time I needed to post a small package (some films to be processed) so on my lunch break I went to the Post Office on Corporation St, in the Morgams Newsagent on the corner near the new Tesco and Forbidden Planet. The queue was to the door so I figured by the time I got to the front of it my lunch break would be long over. Onwards I trudged tot he Post Office in the Big Top (behind Beaties and right next to WHSmiths), it has been closed down! From there I trudged up New St to the Post Office at the top of Pinfold St and Hill St, like the Corporation St Post office there was a queue to the door. Despondant I returned to work.

Who the heck decided to close the Big Top Post Office? We’re not talking about some tiny subpostoffice int he middle of nowwhere that gets 2 customers a week. Everytime I’ve been there it has been busy, it’s right in the centre of the main shopping area and only likely to be more central when the Eastside/Masshouse (i.e. back side of Digbeth) developments come online. Also, of the three city centre Post Offices, it was the only one that was a proper post office. Corporation St is an after thought added to a news agents whilst Pinfold St is a funny shape which impedes queue management..

Gah!!!!!!!!