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Reaction to a post office closure

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When plans were announced to close the post office at the small town of Waipiro Bay on the East Coast, residents were shocked and angry. A number of rural post offices closed in the late 1980s – partly because of rural depopulation, and partly because of government restructuring of the Post Office.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Communications, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18562/reaction-to-a-post-office-closure (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.