My mum was becomming very frail although she was not old at all, 64 I lived not far away in the same town and had a busy life but visited her at least 2x a week and p honed her most day's. This was before the day's of internet and my mum got her pension from a post office a bit too far away from her but as they sold loads of other stuff the post office owners, refugees from Uganda, used to bring my mums pension and any orders for cigaretts, bread, other bit's of food etc, it was them that rang me to say they had not heard from my mum, so I went around and sure enough she was very ill and stuck in her bed, I was soo thankful to them and the little bit of shopping she had from them was irellevant, they were good neighbours, any other post office may not have noticed or cared but they did!!! Mum died about 2 months later but I was very grateful!!!