23-Feb-2010
Cambridge News - Villagers will pop to pub for a book of stamps
A post office is to open in a village pub. Staff at the Queen’s Head in Long Lane, Fowlmere, a Greene King property will soon be serving books of stamps and weighing parcels as well as pulling pints
The village’s post office closed last year but the pub is just 500 yards away.
It will run postal services from 10am to noon each weekday and the opening times could be extended if there is enough demand.
Visitors to the pub’s lounge bar will be able to collect pensions and benefits, access banking services, pay bills and send parcels.
Landlord Alan Clasby said: “It’s good for the village and it’s good for us as well.
"It will attract people into the pub and hopefully, with the way the pub trade is at the moment, they might stay for lunch or have something to drink."
Mr Clasby said he believed offering more services was the way forward for rural pubs.
He said: "I think we’ve got to diversify a little bit.
"It’s a chance to put something back into the village and it’s not going to take up too much space."
The branch will open on Thursday, March 18.
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