The aftershocks of the Canterbury earthquakes have ripped further into the business heart of Napier. New Zealand Post is getting out of the historic Post Office building at the end of this week.
The move includes the Post Office boxes and ends 84 years of postal services in the three-storey building, which opened on the corner of Hastings and Dickens streets in 1928 and survived the Hawke's Bay Earthquake, three years later.
Including shifting the Kiwibank agency, it comes as a result of seismic assessment of commercial and public buildings throughout New Zealand since the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes.
The Post Office meets present Napier City requirements, but New Zealand Post spokesman John Tulloch said the company had set higher standards.
While it will still be responsible for the ongoing lease in central Napier, it's moving to vacant space facing Wellesley Rd in the Balmoral Shopping Centre, from where it will reopen on Monday.