Orford Post Office

Reviews

• SC

  Susan Couzens

  Dec 6, 2025
  5.0
  A very friendly village shop that sells almost everything you need, fresh and frozen. Also houses Orford’s Post Office. Shop and P.O. open 7 days a week. Veg, fruit, plants and flowers very good quality and often locally sourced. A real asset to the village.
• FF

  Fifi

  Sep 23, 2025
  4.0
  Really good selection of items but quite expensive. Guess that’s what you pay for “convenience” ! Bought some really tasty sausage rolls (with onion chutney inside) and a few other bits while staying nearby. Only realised, once back at the cottage, the use by date on the milk was the following day! Staff were friendly, even when turning up 5 minutes before closing, so hats off to them for not showing any unhappiness.
• JH

  jasmine hayes

  Oct 23, 2023
  2.0
  As a shop, it's good, with an excellent cheese counter, but it's meant to be a post office too, and as a post office I prefer to avoid it. I would rather drive to Rendlesham or Saxmunham which is a shame. In Sudbourne, each day the rules over where you queue for the post office change depending on who is on the counter. It's either 'queue from the other end' i.e. join the shop queue, or you join the shop queue and get to the front of the line to be told to 'wait at the post office counter, you're in the wrong queue'. Either way, your time is wasted and there's no hint of apology for not guessing right, just a weary sigh that you got it wrong, what a nuisance. Where you're expected to queue changes depending who is on the counter, or maybe the day of the week, or the weather, and none of the staff acknowledge that we're all guessing today's whim. And woe betide you if happen to have an Amazon parcel to return, it's honestly better if you avoid the post office option altogether in that case or go for the collect at home option. I was behind a pensioner wanting to withdraw money last week; there is no ATM in the village so it's the only option. The woman asked how much she could withdraw to be answered with a sharp, 'You should know your own bank card limit". I'm guessing there would have been a more cheery greeting if she'd been buying a kilo of Baron Bigod. It feels like the post office is just a nuisance to the people who work there which is sad. The staff at Rendlesham are as focused on the post office as they are on the shop and manage their dual counters well without making people feel stupid. Or, here's an idea, on those days when you don't want people to wait at the post office counter, have a cardboard sign you prop up to say that.
• SF

  Sarah Felton

  Jul 12, 2020
  5.0
  Lovely local shop, friendly staff, well stocked in a beautiful village.
• JM

  joe MACKEN

  May 20, 2017
  5.0
  Well stocked local shop special with local vegetables, cheeses, meats and pies. Very friendly to boot.

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