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Keen-eyed residents will have noticed red postboxes being taped up and blocked for use in the Bishop’s Stortford area as part of a roll-out of new devices by Royal Mail.
The new design features a solar panel, a scanner and a drawer for parcels, and enables customers to send and return small, labelled parcels through a postbox for the first time. People can send letters via the posting slot as normal.
Royal Mail says the turnaround for upgrades is several weeks, as each box is individually measured, the existing door is taken off and the new door must be transported from its engineering centre in Gloucester.
The boxes are wrapped to protect them from the weather or vandalism during the upgrade. In the meantime, residents are asked to use a nearby postbox or hand stamped letters to their postman or postwoman.
Some postboxes in Bishop’s Stortford have already been upgraded, while others, including the one in Snowley Parade, Manston Drive, on the Parsonage estate, are still awaiting their new look.
A Royal Mail spokesperson said:“Our postboxes of the future offer another convenient way for customers in Bishop’s Stortford to access Royal Mail’s services, alongside home delivery and collection, our customer service points, post office branches, lockers and Royal Mail shops.
“We’re pleased to see positive feedback from customers in areas where the postboxes have already been introduced, and we hope local residents will find them just as useful and convenient.”
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