Residents of Vermont’s capital have a new location to pick up missed deliveries.
On Sunday, the U.S. Postal Service opened a temporary location in the Central Vermont Marketplace at 282 Berlin Mall Road, according to Steve Doherty, a Postal Service spokesperson. He did not say how long mail services would be located there.
If residents receive a notice of an attempted delivery, they can pick up their items at the temporary location during business hours. However, there will be no retail or post office box services in Berlin. Doherty said that the Postal Service hopes to have an announcement on a location in downtown Montpelier for those services in the coming weeks, as negotiations are “currently underway.”
People living in the Montpelier area have been scrambling for months without a post office, which closed due to July’s floods. The retirement of a mail carrier then left many people without reliable service and no place to pick up their missed deliveries. In November, Montpelier P.O. box customers were relocated to the Barre Post Office.
Montpelier’s mail was being sorted at the National Life Building in Montpelier, but residents were not able to pick up any items there. The new location in Berlin has replaced the sorting operations in the National Life Building.
“The carriers working out of Berlin and a downtown presence for postal retail operations will alleviate the need for local residents and businesses to travel to Barre,” Doherty wrote in an email. “The search for a unified site to host both functions in town will continue.”
