Uplands Post Office, Stroud
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Uplands Post Office, Stroud
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 8 Jan 2012
Located in Springfield House, at the junction of Uplands Road and Springfield Road (on the right), Uplands Post Office is a rare example of a post office reopening after being closed down. In 2008, this post office was one of seven in the Stroud area to be closed, as part of the cost-cutting exercise which closed 2,500 post offices in the UK. After a vigorous local campaign, and financial support from Stroud town council, the post office reopened a few months after closure. A key factor was a High Court ruling that a local 74-year-old disabled person would be discriminated against because of the difficulties she would face getting to another post office.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.749087
Longitude
-2.210279