We are Earlham House Post Office.
As a way of encouraging local artists and crafters, connecting with the community and having a variety of gifts, we have created 3 bays that are 1 metre wide by 2 metres tall of shelving.
The idea is it’s a space that local crafters can sell their creations somewhere offline. There is no shelf fee or charges and we do a simple 60/40 split where the crafter gets the larger amount.
You set the prices and we have a list behind the till so the staff can scan products that are brought up and we can keep a track of what is sold. We like to rotate the crafters roughly every 3 months or so and in the past if people have been particularly successful, we keep them on elsewhere in the shop.
At the start of the project, the crafter inputs all of their products they plan on selling into our easy to use database. Then the crafter comes in and sets up at the start and notes stock. Crafters are free to display and dress the shelves as they wish. We encourage crafters to place some text telling customers who they are and their crafting journey.
Every month or so we ask that crafters do a stock take and we check it with ours and they then send an invoice which we then pay. (This is how you get paid!)
Generally, the shop is a card and stationery shop but is probably one of the busiest Post Offices in Norfolk with a focus on mails and banking.