On 30 Dec, 13:00, Tom Anderson wrote:

I had no idea there even were post buses outside places like the
highlands.

Well, they are not exactly well publicised if their stops are so well
hidden.


Deepest, darkest Surrey hardly seems like somewhere you'd find
such a last-ditch form of transport!



Hmm. Having looked at the Royal Mail website, here are no post buses in East Anglia or the west country.

There was one in Somerset, Wells to Priddy, which stopped about 2 yrs
ago. About a year before it was abolished, my wife & I waited for it
at a Mendip crossroads and waved down a Post Office vehicle which
approached, then saw it was an ordinary PO van. The driver explained
it was meant to be the Postbus, but because it was not a Thursday he
had brought a van instead of the bus, as there were only ever any bus
passengers on Thursdays (market day in Wells). He carried us to Priddy
in the back of the van with the mailbags but refused to accept any
fares. (I'd rather he had, as then the journeys would have appeared in
the accounts).

Jon