This may just look to you like a book of second-class stamps, and so it is; but it is more. It is the first purchase I've been able to make from our local Post Office since last October when it was suspended over allegations of fraud. It is not as though our sub-postmaster has been legally exonerated; the situation remains as it was. But Post Office Limited has allowed him to run the business again provided his brother-in-law becomes the licensee; which tells you everything you need to know about the perspicacity of the process. Nevertheless, the Swanvale Halt Post Office is again open, serving my twelve thousand parishioners as it did until nine months ago, and Chandra the subpostmaster and his wife are beaming in a way they have not done for a long time. And I could not be more delighted.
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