The former post office

At the beginning of the 19th century a mail coach stopped at the staging post at Valmartin on the Rouen-Dieppe road where there was a letter post office.

On August 22nd 1848, a request was made to transfer the letter post office to Clères, the main town of the Canton with the gendarmerie, the Justice of the Peace and a railway station. This request from the town council was accepted in 1851.

In 1863 a first post office was set up in a house in rue des Jardins (now rue Hippolyte Lemarchand) where the present day primary school is.

Around 1902 the post office moved to rue du Marchepied de la Rivière in the town centre. It was then open every day, even on Sunday mornings, with two mail deliveries and two departures per day.

This office became too small and access was too difficult for postal vehicles and thus in 1963 the Departmental Post Office authorities asked for it to be moved.

In 1968 the post office was installed in the new premises at the junction of rue des Colverts and rue des Friquets. A mechanical sorting centre operated at the back of the building until the creation of a departmental sorting office. These premises are now a physiotherapy centre. The post office also supplies banking and insurance services.

In 1865, before the arrival of the telephone, a telegraph service was set up in Clères. Postcards show the aerial on the roof of the post office. Then the telephone arrived and around 1930 about 17 telephone subscriptions were registered. In 2003 there were about 400 telephone subscriptions and two telephone boxes. Today, with the arrival and development of the Internet and mobile phones, telephone boxes no longer exist.