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Pop into Ophir Post Office: a small but significant legacy from the gold rushes and one of Central Otago's most photographed buildings.

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Ophir Post Office

Post a letter, postcard or parcel from the country's longest running post office.
Meet our famous post mistress Val Butcher.
Explore the post office's unique collection.

Garden

Visit the nineteenth century jailhouse.

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53 Swindon Street
Ophir
Otago 9393

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Hours

Monday – Friday 9.00am - 12.00pm

Public Holidays

Closed

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Free

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Food and Drink

Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic with them to enjoy in our backyard, some seating is available or bring a rug to roll out on the lawn. Please take all food and rubbish with you.

There are two local eateries located just a short distance from Ophir Post Office. Further afield, in Alexandra there is a selection of local cafés and eateries.

Parking

There is parking on site.

Gift Shop

Browse the Ophir Post Office gift shop.

Smoking and Vaping

All our properties are smoke and vape-free sites.

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Ophir Post Office is a small, one-storey building with single steps and uneven surfaces. There is wheelchair access to the main foyer.

Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair access to the back office. There is plenty of street parking outside the front door for visitors with limited mobility. Unfortunately, due to the size of the post office mobility scooters do not have space to enter.

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Phone +64 3 447 3738
Email ophir@heritage.org.nz

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Cute as a button – it’s a recurrent phrase in descriptions of the Ophir Post Office, one of Central Otago’s most photographed heritage buildings. And sure, it’s charmingly small and appealingly symmetrical.

But there’s something about its formal façade, with those pillars and classical arched arcade, that’s actually more stately than sweet. Here, says the architecture, is the embodiment of Her Majesty’s Postal Service, as sound as a pound and built for the ages.

And so it has proved: constructed in 1886 and now cared for by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, the schist building still operates as Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest running post office.

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