Sir – I read with interest your article on the need for a post office in Summertown.

As the proprietor of Mail Boxes Etc. in Summertown, my shop has provided first-class mail and international air mail since the closure of the last post office in 2008. The shop is always busy and is popular with both local residents and businesses.

While I acknowledge and accept that there are services a post office could provide but which we are unable to, the shop fills a large part of the gap left since 2008.

I also wish to make it known that one of the most used services I provide is student shipping. Many of the city’s student population use the shop to send their belongings home, and on that front, Mail Boxes Etc. provides a services which I believe to be superior to that available at any of Oxford’s remaining post offices.

If Ms Glazebrook or any Summertown resident wishes to know more of the various postal services available, I would suggest that they visit Mail Boxes Etc. and speak to a member of staff who would be only too happy to help.

Justin Brookes, Headington