An Post has appointed auctioneering firm Cushman Wakefield to handle the sale of 12 town centre post offices including the buildings in Thurles and Roscrea.
The Thurles building has been vacant since 2019 when the company decided to relocate the Post Office to a retail unit at Thurles Shopping Centre. The other ten buildings are in Bantry, Skibbereen, Kinsale, Macroom, Athenry, Loughrea, Tuam, Ballyhaunis, Westport and Boyle, in county Roscommon. Ten of the properties will offer the new owners rental income via postmaster services on site and the potential for other uses within the buildings, especially overhead. The 12 post offices, plus a site in Bantry, West Cork, are expected to raise over €3M.
An Post is implementing a strategy of handing retail post office services over to a network of private postmasters especially ones that are co-located with another commercial operation.Retail Post Office services in Tipperary town are to cease at the existing retail premises on Grattan/Davis Street on October 25th and resume on October 29th in a new dedicated space in the SuperValu store on the Link Road/Kickham Place. Mail sorting and distribution is to continue at the Grattan Street building which opened in 1980.
