General News
28 August, 2022
Mail sale plan
ALMOST three years after Bridgewater rallied to save its post office, the community consortium that bought the business is looking to put it up for sale. Licensee Shannon Brown said the post office had been turned into a thriving local business since...
ALMOST three years after Bridgewater rallied to save its post office, the community consortium that bought the business is looking to put it up for sale.
Licensee Shannon Brown said the post office had been turned into a thriving local business since the consortium took charge in December 2019.
“Our intention has always been to make sure there is a post office in town and after a couple of years under the belt doing well, we see this as a time to see if anyone else is interested,” Shannon said.
“We certainly won’t be closing the doors, just seeing who else may want to take on the business.
“We have shown the post office is viable and there’s certainly room for expansion.”
A consortium of 11 local businesses stepped in when the previous owner of the local post office agency announced plans to close the doors of the historic building that has been the town’s post office since the late 1860s.
Shannon said the post office employed six local people as part-time staff.
Among them is Jayde Turnbull, who was the first to join the team.
In 2019, Shannon said: “It’s really great that our community has been able to come together and pull this off.”
The consortium was an initiative of Bridgewater on Loddon Development to retain what it says is a vital local business.
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