Lanark Post Office saga continues
As reported, the St Leonard Street office was the target of an alleged arson attack on June 7 and since then customers – many elderly – have had to travel to Carstairs, Crossford, Carnwath and Carluke for Post Office services.
One elderly Lanark lady told the Gazette that she’d gone to the Carstairs office for a payment one day to find the sub-office there had run out of money; she then had to get a bus back to Lanark to catch another one to Carluke to go to the sub-office there.
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Hide AdThere are also businesses in the Lanark area who still heavily rely on the postal service for mail order deliveries.
The town did, until a few years ago, have two far closer sub-post offices, in the Westport and at Kirkfiedbank, but these were declared redundant by the Post Office which stated that a single, main office would suffice.