30 May 2025

Colville people ensure the mail gets through

From Country Life, 7:23 pm on 30 May 2025

An hour's drive from the northern tip of Coromandel, you'll find a tiny post office run by volunteers. As rural postal services shrink, the small community here - population about 15-hundred - has taken things into its own hands to ensure the old motto "the mail must get through"

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