Plethora of Puhoi postcodes causing customer consternation
The Puhoi General Store has post boxes, parcels, counter delivery – and a clutch of different postcodes.
Frustrated Puhoi resident Andrew Cranna-Powell.
A Puhoi resident is at his wits’ end after trying to get to the bottom of why the village has at least five different addresses and postcodes being used for postal and courier deliveries.
Andrew Cranna-Powell of Ahuroa Road says for several years there have been an increasing number of misdirected, delayed and non-delivered items, especially couriered parcels that needed to be picked up from the Puhoi Store.
“A few years back it was common for courier parcels and mail to be addressed simply to the Puhoi Store, Puhoi and for them to reliably arrive there,” he said. “Then something changed.
History - Retail therapy in early PuhoiBy: Jenny Schollum
To shop local in Puhoi in the early 20th century, settlers had a choice of three stores: C. Schischka and Son, Schollum and Titford and Wenzlick and Co. I suspect each resident was staunchly loyal to their regular proprietor. Everything imaginable was available through the stores – hardware, nails, barbed wire, fertilizer and fuel. Paint was mixed there, and a length of muslin measured from the roll could be bought there. Most staples like flour and sugar were bought in bulk, although scales were available to measure out small quantities. The scales had a ready reckoner function, which could calculate the correct cost of the amount purchased.