General Post Office, Adelaide — Local services in Adelaide

Being a customer of this GPO when in Adelaide for over twenty years I've got to say the staff are usually great. I mean it's a post office, not a Mercedes dealership, no one is going to offer you a hipster coffee while you wait. And the building is definitely one of the grandest Victorian buildings in town. To the negative reviewers, if you are the type of person that needs to post a bad review about a post office, perhaps you are not coming across with an attitude that makes people want to help you. And the passport instructions definitely do say not to glue the...

This beautiful building is worth a visit; a great backdrop to a photograph and a regular meeting place for many. The Australia Post service has been downgraded over decades as email and messaging has developed but you can still send mail and packages. Much of the process of mail sorting is done by robots but at the customer counter you will be faced by a person. Quite often I have found the service a little less than friendly leaving me to wonder what pressures lay beyond the restricted Staff Only signs.

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I went in trying to return a laptop that I bought, I told the lady behind the counter that it is a prepaid postage. She rudely replied " it doesn't help me, I need an adress" after she took her time fondling with the barcode clearly on the package she asks me to come back again. Literally stupefied after wasting my time with her, I went to the aus post down the rundle mall to finally get things done. Terrible attitude to someone not familiar with how pre paid postage works and genuinely trying to get...