There was frustration, anger and panic outside Dannevirke's PostShop on Tuesday morning as people queued to pay their bills.
Despite notice from New Zealand Post that the PostShop would be open on Monday, then Tuesday, the doors were still locked.
"I wanted to pay a electricity bill due on Friday and haven't been able to, so now my rebate is lost," one angry Dannevirke woman said.
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Shirley Morgans also went to pay a power bill on behalf of an elderly resident and discovered four elderly women standing outside the High St PostShop upset it hadn't opened.