Post Office has announced the roll-out its new fleet of mobile post
offices, deploying 40 new vehicles to serve 250 locations every week in
rural areas across the United Kingdom.
The new
vehicles are Mercedes Sprinter vans, kitted out to provide a walk-in
post office on wheels,
with the added facility of an accessibility lift.The mobile branches are operated by subpostmasters who can bring all of the services that their core branches provide to more isolated areas.
The vehicles are being deployed to rural
areas in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and will cover
half a million miles between them over the next 12 months – the
equivalent of driving along the Equator around the earth 20 times.
They
are replacing the current fleet of converted LDV vans, which have
travelled around three million miles altogether over the past six years.
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