New Post Shop for Otumoetai

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Otumoetai's Cherrywood Variety Store is set to run postal and over-the-counter banking services for New Zealand Post.

The variety store will move to the PostShop's existing site at Cherrywood Drive, in July.

In May, New Zealand Post told its staff, its customers and the local community that it intended to find a local business to operate services on its behalf.

This was in response to the changing way its customers are using its services and in order to remain in good shape for the future.

New Zealand Post general manager for retail distribution Tracey Berry said the Cherrywood Variety Store would offer customers a convenient mix of services from a familiar location.

"Our customers in Cherrywood will be able to access all of the over-the-counter banking, postal, courier and bill payment services they do today. The PO Boxes and the Kiwibank ATM will remain in Cherrywood.

"For more complex banking services like applying for a home loan or opening a new bank account, customers can visit our Brookfield PostShop at 81 Bellevue Road, our Tauranga PostShop at 17 Grey Street, or use phone or internet banking.

"New Zealand Post will have a banking consultant onsite ahead of the move to help its banking customers sign up for these services.''

Cherrywood Variety Store Owner Renu Duggal said she was looking forward to offering a new range of services at the existing PostShop site.

"I am a people person and love to interact with the community. I am looking forward to the increased foot traffic postal and banking services will bring, for business as well as for me personally," Renu Duggal said.

New Zealand Post is also working closely with its PostShop team in Cherrywood.

"We are committed to supporting our team through this change. We appreciate this is an uncertain time for them," Tracey Berry said.

The current PostShop will close at 5pm on Friday, July 24. Cherrywood Variety Store will begin delivering New Zealand Post and Kiwibank services from that location from Monday, July 27 2015.