Eumundi Rotar y shar ing the voices of Eumundi and sur round s Issue 32, Thursday 4 November 2021
Eumundi’s Postman Matt
For 15 years Matt Noakes has been our popular Eumundi postmaster and with wife Danielle they both serve the town and outlying properties. The post office is increasingly busy due to population growth, expansion of local businesses and over the past couple of years – Covid. For Matt and Danielle, family is their top priority and they regard their customers as extended family, taking in their stride the long hours, lack of personal time and being ‘recognised’ whenever they step outside. With relatives on the Sunshine Coast they “have no plans for going anywhere in the future” and Matt recently became a Tier 1 member of Australia Post’s local business partner program. Matt’s family – including grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins – moved here from Adelaide in 1997. I met Matt and his sisters Emily and Olivia (Livvy) when they began at St John’s College in Nambour and we have remained close ever since.
Danielle and Matt Noakes
Danielle moved with her family from Victoria when she was six and attended Sunshine Beach Primary and High Schools. The pair first met as Noosa Heads Lifesavers where Danielle was Miss Surf Girl but when both did management training at Coles, they met again. When Matt saw the Eumundi Post Office Cont. p3
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