The old Strathroy post office was built in 1889. Although there is still a post office in town, and close to the old one as a matter of fact, the heritage post office with its visually wonderful clock tower is now a restaurant and hotel with eight luxury suites. You can read about it and see more pictures by clicking the LINK.
With covid-19 making shopping in person impossible at times, I am finding I have had to buy a lot online and have it delivered using, you guessed it, the post office. Seems funny that as postal demands increase, the post offices we are left using are much smaller and less spacious than the original post offices that dotted the province.
If the original, large post offices had been maintained, it is quite possible the old, heritage buildings would be finding their second wind today.
2 comments:
Same story over here. Our post offices are the size of a booth these days.
Beautiful architecture.
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