I used to travel a lot through the East End of London because I lived out in Leyton and then Leytonstone for a decade and my son was actually born in the London Hospital at Whitechapel. But, since I moved to north-west London almost three decades ago, I don’t visit the East End that much. Today though, I was over there to visit \u00a0the Stroudley Walk post office.<\/p>\n
Now, over the years, I’ve visited a lot of post offices because I used to be on the Board of Postwatch and then its successor Consumer Focus and I still chair the Post Offices Advisory Group<\/a> of Consumer Focus. Sadly the location I viewed today is not a shiniest example of the best of the post office network as made plain by this customer comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, what was I doing there? In my capacity as a non-executive Board member<\/a> of the Online Centres Foundation<\/a>, I wanted to visit a location involved in Get Online Week which runs from this Monday to this Friday and the OCF Head Office in Sheffield offered me Stroudley Walk post office as a participating location in the city where I live.<\/p>\n If the ambience of the Stroudley Walk post office is less than thrilling, the enthusiasm of the Get Online Week supporters that I met there totally made up for it. Sitting behind a table loaded with leaflets and a laptop were Julie Browne and Rujina Ali who gave me a warm welcome and explained the activities of Poplar HARCA<\/a> (Housing & Regeneration Community Association) – an organisation covering some 8,500 propertiesi – \u00a0for which they work.<\/p>\n