This post office is conveniently located in the city center at a cross roads and about one of the…read moreonly places that sells international stamps. Walk in and get a ticket and then you'll get called to the counter. It's easy-peasy. Note: #238 of Yelp 100 challenge for 2016

Centrally located and filled with friendly staff this post office does more than just letters and…read morestamps..... It also posts parcels and so much more. I had some great customer service from the moment I walked through the door until the moment I left. There is a self service payment area and a row of counters to with a ticket service, there is a selection of cards and stationary and plenty of different parcel boxes and envelopes to choose from. I would walk the extra mile to use this post office for the service I received the first time.

Bedford Street Post Office sells all the equipment you need for sending letters and posting parcels…read more- envelopes - brown white and varying sizes - bubble wrap, sellotape, brown papers etc. Many a time I have perched a parcel on the narrow counter to wrap it up and post on the hoof in here. It provides the usual Post Office service but being small is best avoided at lunch time when the queue builds up. The shop part has the usual newagents supplies of papers, drinks, sweets, sandwiches and some funny little knick knack gifts like name pens, mugs and fridge magnets for occasions that demand a token gift.

Post offices although controlled by a set of rules and structure from up high really do come in…read morevarying forms and degrees of proficiency. Bedford Street is a fair example of a post office doing the right thing in some regards which needs a little help in others. I called in here last week to buy some packing material to post a guitar to a guy in Scotland (having sold it for less than I would have liked to) I ended up picking up some bubble wrap, packing roll and brown tape, all of which came to about £4, which is reasonable. They also stock a range of Yankee candles bizarrely along with typical newsagent items, as well as some touristy things. The main problem with this branch is it's small, and generally has only one or two staff on the post office side of things but, the queues are ridiculous....to the point where there's almost no floor space for other people to browse. Not the best but certainly not the worst way to get your postal needs sorted in the city centre.

The Post Office policy that they have to see a paper copy of an insurance certificate before they…read morecan tax a vehicle is antiquated. I could understand if a copy had to be kept on record but the member of staff just looks at it and hands it back. People are having to search around the area to see if someone can print it out for them. How inconvenient for a parent of young children or someone with a disability or the person who just popped out in their lunch break. Also in this age of everyone being encouraged to NOT PRINT it is not a great example from what used to be - one of our great icons- ROYAL MAIL.

Typical royal mail. If you work for a living, you find yourself having to go to Tomb street to get…read moreyour package. Useless.

Large post office offering a full range of services including parcelforce express, passport check &…read moresend, vehicle tax, foreign currency, travel insurance and current & savings accounts. Whilst often extremely busy the staff are quick and courteous so I never find I have to queue for long.

Every time I go here it is SO busy! It's situated actually inside Tesco's in Yorkgate Retail Park,…read morewhich is probably why its always got a massive queue in which you have to wait. But it usually moves fairly quickly, because they always have a good amount of staff on hand, who are always really friendly and helpful - I recently went with some large parcels and was quite laden down with them, and the staff member went out of thier way to help me get them sent off in the correct manner and took time to ask me questions about how I wanted them posted and explained the postal processes with patience also, which I really appreciated. You might have to get in a queue but it's fast moving and the staff are very helpful despite being very busy.

This busy little Post Office is always full of customers, and the service is the quickest compared…read moreto any other Post Office I've been to. They almost always have two staff members serving at the counter, and there is a separate till for items not 'post office related', which speeds things up also. They give great advice with regard to postal options, how long things will take depending on which service you use, insurance needs for the item, etc. They offer card for birthdays, anniversaries and so forth, but none of them are to my taste, they all look a little sad, but that's not a problem as you don't come here for that. They also have a good, well-stocked stationery section also.