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East Meon Stores

and Post Office Partnership

From 13.00 hrs on Monday August 11th, East Meon Stores will end its contract with the Post Office and cease to be a Sub Post Office.

However East Meon will continue to benefit from most of the services previously offered during the same opening hours as before. Neighbouring villages, including West Meon, Froxfield and East Tisted, have not been so lucky – they will have only six hours’ outreach service a week.

The Stores have been part of the village since the 1960s, when this was one of many shops along the High Street. Now it is the last remaining shop and we try to provied as many of the daily requirements of the villagers as possible.

Shop opening times:
Monday to Friday 7.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 7.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday & Bank Holidays 8.00am - 1.00pm

Post Office opening times
Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Saturday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Sunday & Bank Holiday Closed

We have all yourrequirements and more: Newspapers and magazines, cigarettes and tobacco, fresh bread (and croissants at the weekend), milk and dairy produce, fruit and vegetables, groceries and household goods. frozen food and ice creams, beers and wine, soft drinks, pet food, handmade an dpre-packed greetings cards, picture postcards and notelets, stationery, laundry, dry cleaning and shoe repair, coal, logs and kindling in season.

Our windows are always full of posters advertising events taking place in and around East Meon as well as Church Service Times, Church Embroidery Project viewing days, Lost and Found, goods for sale or required, local services and many more.From the Post Office you can now get Holiday Insurance, Foreign Currency, Mobile Phone top-ups, e-top-ups and cash. Information is available on Loands, Home and Car Insurance.

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The Stores now have a contract with the Droxford Sub Postmaster. From Tuesday 12th August, this franchise will operate from 09.00 to 17.30 during the week and from 09.00 to 12.30 on Saturdays.

Janet stresses that the situation is evolving – the negotiations have been complex and the current arrangements cannot be guaranteed for more than a year. But it would appear that the Khambatas’ negotiating skills and lobbying by residents and pressure by the Parish Council and our District Councillor David Parkinson have borne fruit.