Redan Post Office

The Redan Post Office has provided postal services in the area since the 1860s.

The Redan Post Office currently operates from a shop on the corner of Skipton Street and Darling Street. In the 1990s it was in a shop on the east side of Skipton Street. There are two historic receiving pillars still in use in Redan, one on the south west corner of Skipton Street and La Trobe Street, and the other on the south west corner of Darling Street and Ripon Street.

History
In November 1869 a concerned resident wrote to the paper about the Borough of Sebastopol requesting the closure of the Redan Post Office: "REDAN AND COBBLERS POST-OFFICES. TO THE EDITOR Or THE STAR. Sir, By referring to the report in Friday's Star of the doings of the Sebastopol Borough Council, it will be seen that the works committee ' had instructed the town-clerk to inform the Hon. C. J. Jenner that it was desirable that the post-offices at Cobblers and Redan should be done away with, and pillars erected instead.' Now, I should like to know on what grounds this statement is made. It cannot be economy, as the doing away of the said post-offices would entail another postman. Nor would it be any additional convenience, inasmuch as the people would then have to travel to the central post-office for money orders and to register letters of value. Having due regard to the other outlying portions of the borough, I am quite certain that it would be no additional accommodation to the inhabitants proximate to the branch post-offices in question. -Yours, &c., 13th November. A Ratepayer."