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First electric Mobile Post Office trialled in Wales

mmBy Elizabeth BakerJune 3, 20244 Mins Read
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First electric mobile Post Office trialled in Wales The Post Office's first electric mobile Post Office sits parked with its backdoors open.
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The first full-electric Mobile Post Office has been successfully trialled in the UK.

Battery-powered vehicle

Pembroke Postmaster Mark Wilson and his team operate a Mobile Post Office vehicle serving 11 communities in rural Pembrokeshire. He has swapped his previous diesel vehicle for an electric one.

The vehicle was evaluated throughout May to check that the battery-powered branch can cope with the hilly terrain. According to the Post Office, it has shown that the more environmentally friendly vehicle is viable and can do more than 100 miles before it needs recharging.

As the longest mileage day for the Pembroke Mobile Post Office is 60 miles, the company highlights how this gives lots of spare capacity and reduces the risk of range anxiety. The vehicle is charged overnight, which removes the need for charging the vehicle while out and about or the need to make a detour to find a compatible charger.

Wilson said, “Our electric Mobile Post Office is turning heads with its distinctive signage. People are used to the typical Post Office red vehicles, but the design of the vehicle highlights that this vehicle is better for the environment. It’s exciting to have the first of these in the UK. Customers have been praising our new vehicle as it is less polluting and looks good.

“It’s the same height as the previous vehicle, but slightly wider, but still fine for country lanes. There’s a better layout inside, which provides more space to offer more retail to the communities that we visit and more storage space for parcels, as these days there are lots of home shopping returns and people selling items on eBay and other resale sites. Colleagues working on the Mobile Post Office are pleased with its road handling and how smoother it is to drive with automatic transmission.”

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Wider postal operations

According to Post Office executives, electric vehicles are also quicker to maintain than the current twice-yearly service of diesel vehicles which may require a vehicle to be off the road all day.

In June 2024, another electric Mobile Post Office will be introduced in East Anglia, followed by a third vehicle at a location still to be determined, to fully test the suitability of these vehicles for rural locations and the cost compared to traditional vehicles.

There are currently 67 diesel Mobile Post Offices in use across Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Mobile Post Office service

A Mobile Post Office service is the company’s way of maintaining Post Office services to smaller communities, especially in rural areas. It can sell the same range of Post Office services as those provided by a postmaster’s main branch, including mail, foreign currencies if pre-ordered, banking on behalf of all the major high street banks, bill payments and vehicle tax.

Nigel Parry, Post Office national outreach model owner, which includes Mobile Post Offices, added, “We know the green credentials of these vehicles, they are better for the environment as there are no emissions polluting communities. These vehicles are cheaper to run and to maintain. Crucially we are testing these vehicles while serving communities to ensure that they are fit for purpose. We want to see how they perform in real life conditions.

“We don’t want our postmasters to have range anxiety, especially as they may be visiting several rural communities in one, where there is no charging capacity or time during their busy schedules to get a re-charge until the evening. Hilly terrain, cold weather, traffic jams and the age and condition of the battery would all affect the range of a vehicle, so we need to ensure there is spare capacity to serve outlying communities at any time of the year.”

In related news, the Post Office recently announced a £30m (US$37.7m) remuneration improvement package for the 2024/2025 financial year. Click here to read the full story.

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