Its current owners Nazra Alam, 67, and her husband Dr Manzoor Alam, 77, have been running it for more than four years, but now plan to retire.
The post office pre-dates the second oldest, in Stockholm, Sweden, by eight years while the third oldest in Santiago, Chile, opened in 1772. On the market for £275,000, it comes with a three-bedroom cottage, a courtyard and some outbuildings. It started out as a staging post for mail carriages, with the old stables thought to have once provided a resting place for horses drawing the mail carriages.
"I hope someone will come along and buy it and keep it going because this is Scotland's heritage and more particularly Sanquhar's," she said.The couple took over the business in July 2015"The last five years has been a remarkable journey and I've enjoyed it, it's a nice area and nice people and we have visitors from all over the world.
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It was inevitable once Scotland stopped using telegrams
Now if that post office was in Barmouth I’d be tempted it’s just the awful weather the Scottish experience its too for me
How much is the stamp duty on it?
PLEASE don't replace it with 'Condos' ?!!!
seth_scott
wish i had the money for it - a dream job
Oje.
I hope they’re frank about the price.
I’m sure someone will want to put their own stamp on the place 🤣
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