Last-minute parcel pick-ups keep post office occupied
GUERNSEY POST'S parcel counter was a hive of activity filled with an array of activity yesterday as online Christmas shoppers rushed to pick up the last of their parcels.
Many who attended had been nervously awaiting the arrival of a gift for a loved one and were relieved to walk away with it.
It has been a record Christmas for Guernsey Post, with parcel deliveries up by 15%.
Mum-of-one Chantelle Clarke, 24, pictured, was collecting her present from her partner and his present from his parents in the UK.
'I've bought quite a lot off Amazon this year and it has all come through pretty quick,' she said.
'I don't know what my present is – I'll have to try not to look.'
Mum-of-three Jo Robert had been waiting for a present for her son but when she phoned the post office to see where it was, they told her it had missed dispatch for delivery.
The parcel counter came to her rescue.
'I phoned to chase it and they told me it had missed dispatch. But they have let me come to collect it without all the reference numbers.
