Same here in Australian country towns. Here the post office (which is often now actually an agency within a general store or the like) are setup to do the normal cheque, passbook and cash transactions that people previously expected a bank branch to fulfil.
We've even lost our post offices, I couldn't tell you where a post office is in the city I live in, they've been slowly disappearing for the last ten years or so. But small businesses like service stations and convenience stores often are post agents.
