General News
8 August, 2023
Post office hot mail comes out of oven
THE long-vacated Inglewood bakery will be transformed into the towns new post office over the next 12 months. Local post office agency owner Kylie Turner has announced plans to relocate from Grant Street by July 2024. She has purchased the former...
THE long-vacated Inglewood bakery will be transformed into the towns new post office over the next 12 months.
Local post office agency owner Kylie Turner has announced plans to relocate from Grant Street by July 2024.
She has purchased the former bakery building in Brooke Street where one of the last occupants was visiting solicitor Reg Schleiger.
Kylie said plans for the heritage building included retaining the original oven as a feature of the new post office. “This will be a big restoration, renovation and rehabilitation project ... there will be all three elements in the transformation,” she said.
Plans include a drive-in delivery area for daily arrival of parcels and letters and a designated sorting room.
“When I bought the post office agency just over a year ago, Australia Post said it was keen for me to find desirable, suitable premises in the main street,” she said.
“The new location will also have easier access with customers not having to negotiate steps. I have one customer who calls from the footpath, unable to climb the steps. I go out and then arrange for her to pay bills at the moment.
“We have a builder lined up and are in talks with Loddon Shire on permits needed to have works done.
“It’s exciting for us, for the main street and the plan is to be in the old bakery by July 1,” Kylie said.