Dora Black / 28 April 2025 / Categories: City, Services

UK Best Post Office Is In Market Harborough

Friendly consistent professional excellence

There is no disputing the Post Office is a business that has some difficulties of late. And when I read the mission statement “an anchor for UK communities for centuries” that encompasses some 11,500 independent businesses I couldn’t help thinking bloody hell what happened to “The Post Office” that beacon of safety and security, premium bonds, and a friendly trusted face behind the counter bringing comfort and assurance and easy straightforward access to our money, savings and services.

I think we take the post office and the people that work there a bit for granted. I know I used to. Until the post office scandal and the itv dramatization that followed “Mr. Bates versus the Post Office” I didn’t even understand Royal Mail and the Post Office are two Completely separate businesses and Post Offices across the UK are independently owned and run franchises which is perhaps why you can go in one Post Office and be greeted with a cheerful welcome and efficient service and go in another and the tasks they don’t perform everyday like for example currency exchange, banking a cheque or some

of the post offices internal services like Drop and go the staff don’t have a clue.

Not so at the Post Office in Market Harborough and I use a lot of different post offices all over the place, I am always shipping something. Market Harborough Post office is run by Mick and team if there was an award for the best Post Office in the UK this would be the winner if it was up to me.

Market Harborough is typically an old fashioned Midlands based market town like so many others across the UK and aside from it being voted three years in a row as “Best Places To Live In The UK” in the Sunday Times, (the Judges said that Market Harborough has "a fine selection of independent shops, upmarket chains and a market that has been going strong for more than 800 years.)

The post office situated on Adam and Eve Street I use a lot. I could go to any post office as I actually don’t live in Harborough anymore, I choose to go and support this business because of the experience plain and simple.

I have NEVER had poor service or encountered anymore in a bad mood. The jokes are really good and the sarcasm and irony you get with no extra change.

Whatever you need to do Mick is always there, unless for a couple of weeks a year he’s in some far off place like exploring Macapichu, Knowledgable like a post office service encyclopedia always happy and available to help his customers or colleagues in equal measure.

If you are the type where you never notice the little things it probably doesn’t matter which Post Office you use, probably the closest and most convenient.

But when the service is as entertaining and as good as Market Harborougj post office trust me people will travel.