For anyone wishing to use the Dorking Post Bus service: the stop in
Dorking is the best hidden I have yet encountered.

The bus departs from the vehicle entrance to the Post Office (not, as
the timetable suggests, from in the High St.outside the Post Office).
To catch it, go to the Post Office and down the side road beside it
until you come to a opening where PO vans go in. Wait there for the
bus. There is no stop sign, timetable, etc.

Despite this unwelcoming start, it is a nice ride into the
countryside!

Jon

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Jon wrote:

I had no idea there even were post buses outside places like the
highlands. Deepest, darkest Surrey hardly seems like somewhere you'd find
such a last-ditch form of transport!

Hmm. Having looked at the Royal Mail website, here are no post buses in
East Anglia or the west country. Shenanigans!

tom

On 30 Dec, 13:00, Tom Anderson wrote:

Well, they are not exactly well publicised if their stops are so well
hidden.

Deepest, darkest Surrey hardly seems like somewhere you'd find

There was one in Somerset, Wells to Priddy, which stopped about 2 yrs
ago. About a year before it was abolished, my wife & I waited for it
at a Mendip crossroads and waved down a Post Office vehicle which
approached, then saw it was an ordinary PO van. The driver explained
it was meant to be the Postbus, but because it was not a Thursday he
had brought a van instead of the bus, as there were only ever any bus
passengers on Thursdays (market day in Wells). He carried us to Priddy
in the back of the van with the mailbags but refused to accept any
fares. (I'd rather he had, as then the journeys would have appeared in
the accounts).

Jon wrote:

How odd. Was there anyone else waiting at this 'stop'?

When you say 'the timetable', are you referring to that shown on the Royal
Mail website? If so, I see what you mean.