Just letting you know that after NZ Post closed the Ponsonby Post Office at Three Lamps, we are getting a lot of people from Ponsonby using our postal services at Lambs pharmacy.
We have been operating for the last 30 years under the same owners Suresh and Hansa Rama, both pharmacists. We know the area well.
Now NZ Post are trying to close our centre down as well. We have raised our objection to this and are fighting the closure. A petition with 1200 signatures has been collected and many people are upset about this news.
Can we please, contact you or your reporters and present our case as Ponsonby residents will also be affected. And the new rail station, CRL, is only five minutes away from the pharmacy and the exposure for NZ Post will be great and also for the people a win win for all.
Please help us with publicity, the Mayor, council members, 3 MPs and many prominent people have sent objection letters and would like you to report this in Ponsonby News .
Thanking you
Kind regards
Suresh and Hansa Rama Pharmacists
An Open Letter to the NZ Post CEO
My name is Phil O’Reilly, I’m a New Zealand born citizen, a long-term citizen of Auckland and ten year resident of Auckland Central in Poynton Terrace - just off K Road.
My background is in design and the performing arts through my creative partnership with spouse and choreographer Mary Jane O’Reilly (QSM) and father to actress Morgana O’Reilly. So are deeply invested in what makes vibrant and successful communities.
Now I realise you’ve probably been deluged with opposition to the closing announcement of NZ Post shops. But I want you to FULLY understand what closing the K Road NZ Post shop could do, because NZ Post has a stake in this beyond some tiny if any saving as Lambs Pharmacy pays all the service costs themselves.
K Road Is a unique component of Auckland’s identity, but it’s a fragile economic, cultural and social ecosystem. Lambs Pharmacy is one of the vital nodes that keep this system working, one already under more stress than most places in the country.
By terminating Lamb’s NZ Post shop you effectively kneecap their viability because their busy postal service is the anchor for the bigger, vital and I might add ‘famous’ service they provide to this ionic neighbourhood.
If Lambs goes the key role they play here goes with them, then the retailers, then the street culture, you get the picture.
Here’s a reasonable challenge, surely you can come up with a creative formula to make this a win, win, win, win; for NZ Post, for Lambs, for the K Road community, and for Auckland’s identity
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