Black Letter Day At Kilmacanogue?

Kilmac’s Post Office 28FEB17

n Valentine’s Day, and without warning, the good people of Kilmacanogue woke up to find their local post office had been given the kiss of death.

A sign on the door from An Post informed them that the closure was due to circumstances beyond their control.

The sign also stated that An Post were seeking submissions from the public by March 8th with regard to the possibility of providing a post office elsewhere in the village in the future.

No one in Kilmacanogue has been able to figure out what the hell that last notice means. Should they offer up their homes as the new post office premises? Or find empty buildings around the village that might be suitable?

Naturally, any enquiries to An Post by the concerned residents have all been returned to sender, unopened and unanswered. 

What has been established in a further statement is that the state-owned provider of postal services are looking into Kilmacanogue’s ‘network coverage needs, the level of business at the office, customer service elsewhere, and the capacity of neighbouring offices to handle business if the office closes‘. 

With the current campaign by residents of Laragh to keep their post office open in full swing, it looks as though Kilmacanogue’s residents have a fight on their hands too.

In the meantime, the village elders can take a stroll into Bray’s post office on Quinsboro Road to collect their pensions. Shouldn’t take ’em more than six hours. Ten, max, if it’s raining.

With an online petition set up last night by local resident David Devine – the man behind the Facebook page Kilmacanogue News & Views – with a real-life, pen & paper petition in Pluck’s for anyone smart enough not to be online, we caught up with the man himself this morning to try and make some sense of this worrying turn of events.

You can add your name to the Save Kilmacanogue Post Office petition here.