Our friend Vik and I sat outdoors at a cafe in St Kilda Road having lunch one day and as she spent a good bit of her childhood as a St Kilda Road resident, I pressed her as to where the the Post Office was back then. Her memory of it was as hazy as mine. I had been there, but of the remaining old buildings in St Kilda Road, I could not work out which one it was. I remembered only the entrance.
I have looked carefully at every possible building trying to work out which one was the Post Office. I am fairly sure the last privately owned house in St Kilda Road was the Post Office. Correct me if you can.
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I'm sure I recall the 3004 PO being on the odd-numbered side, and it looks like that house, but is a few doors from, or next door to, the Dun&Bradstreet building.
I hate the way AusFknPost has closed all the big spacious PO buildings and franchised them out to creeps who run toyshops with post services as a sideline. hate hate hate.
It was definitely on the even-numbered side and not far from the Commercial Road intersection. I remember it being an old red-brick building, probably an old house. Vik.
They just don't feel like proper post offices do they Ann. Can you trust your letter to France at a place that sells toys?
I am positive that it was on the even numbered side too.
Vik, which puts it exactly where the privately owned house now is.
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