Berkhamsted Sorting and Delivery Office: Are people aware that the office is closing 'later in the year' (possibly July). Unless Royal Mail can be pursuaded otherwise, any undelivered mail, parcels etc. will, henceforth, have to be collected from Maylands in Hemel. Royal Mail is re-organising delivery arrangements in the area, and in future sorting and deliveries will be based at Maylands. I understand there are no firm plans for the Royal Mail Berko site, but the plane trees nearby have recently had TPOs put on them !

Thanks for your post, garyb. According to one of the managers at the Berko office, there are currently no plans for retaining an office in town, but plans are not finalised yet. So apparently yes, it has changed !

it would be nice if we could get our post in a decent time. If we get a delivery it is normally after 4pm Maybe the Post Office needs to invest money instead of cost cutting.

Ok, so we will have No Police Station, No Sorting or Collection Office from Royal Mail, No school places left because of the proposed housing build on Durrants Lane and Shootersway, No Doctors because all the good ones are full and you have to make an appointment to be ill, or they are so bad no one wants to go and see them, the infrastructure is bursting at the seams, but hey, WE WiLL have Estate Agents, Restaurants, Bars, Charity Shops and Congestion on the roads, No Parking as the car parks will be bursting assuming you can get through the traffic to get to them in the first place!! AND this is progress ??

"And. of course, only one public toilet, a good half an hour walk from the edge of town !"

The secret is either not to go the edge of town or buy a drink at one of the numerous bars or restaurants to ensure you need to use the facilities (preferable to the Water Lane ones often).

I'm beginning to think the idea is to actually make the place far less attractive to live in so the ancient infrastructure will last a few more years. I've just returned from a little place called Bakewell and they haven't ripped the heart out of the town centre, they do have a cottage hospital as well as good facilities (as one resident said "did you bring your bike?, they've just refurbished a disused railway tunnel and it has lights in it") Honest, I didn't make it up, but shows the pride residents have in the town. The A6 passes straight through, but they don't have a railway! Now there's an idea!!

Our postie this morning said that they have been told it could be closing towards the end of August - having already moved from May, through July and early August!
They are still not certain if there will be a 'pick-up' office in Berkhamsted although the room above the current Post Office is being considered but it is far from certain.
We would get our post later in the day than we do already as on top of the move to Hemel there are also plans for the staff to start the sorting process later in the day - from the current start times of 6 - 6.30 am to 8 am.
If we're lucky we'll get our post in time to catch any'urgent' matters before offices start closing from 5pm onwards!!
Modern progress, you can't beat it!

You'll all be pleased to know that Royal mail will drag itself into the21st century on 22nd August 2001 - opening hours will be 7am to 7pm Mon to Fri and 7am to 2pm on Saturday.

All you have to do is get to Maylands Ave when that nice postman of yours tiptoes up to your front door. puts a card through to say you were not in and dashes off.