VISITING THE OFFICE 

This is NOT the web site for Royal Mail, this is NOT the web site for Watford Sorting Office.
The number for the Sorting Office is 01923 215600 (switchboard), or 01923 215712 (collections)
THIS IS NOT WATFORD SORTING OFFICE, THIS IS NOT ROYAL MAIL
this is just a local mail order company that happens to be in the next street to the Sorting Office
(I say this twice because people STILL phone and TELL us that we are Royal Mail because it says so here)

QUICKTEST

If you know exactly what you want and you have money in your pocket you are more than welcome to call at the office. When you collect goods you will be expected to check the items to make sure they are correct, however this is an office, not a shop, not a showroom, not even a 'trade counter', we have neither the space for you to try out alternative goods nor the time to demonstrate them*, if you wish to browse please visit us at an antiques fair.

Visitors by appointment only - unexpected visitors will be turned away.

Please either bring a cheque with a cheque card or the exact cash, you cannot pay by card at the office.

If you have ordered and paid by card online, and asked to collect the goods from the office, please remember to bring the card with you.

Address is Quicktest, Park House, Greenhill Crescent, Watford Business Park, Watford, WD18 8PH.  
(Click on map to see more)

OFFICE  HOURS - Summary

Monday to Thursday approx. 8am to 6pm
Friday 8am to mid-afternoon
Saturday - closed
Sunday - usually 9am to early afternoon

OFFICE  HOURS - Detail (2010)

The following will help you decide when to phone and who to speak to.

Monday to Thursday:
Raffi 7am to 6pm. (In the Summer when it's light and hot, 6.30am. In the Winter when it's dark and cold, 8am).
Sara (order processing and admin.) 10.30am to 6.30pm
Mac (stock control and production) 8am to 6.30pm
Karen (bookkeeper), occasional Fridays (only speak to her if it's a very complicated accounts question)
Eddie (Geiger counters, same office, different company) Monday to Friday 8am to 3pm

Fridays:
As above but Mac isn't in, and I go sometime between 2pm and 4pm, and Sara goes sometime between 4pm and 5pm
(So no visitors in the afternoon please).

Sundays:
I'm in the office between 9am and 4pm; Chris and Sara 10am to 4pm
But often closed in the quiet summer season, late July to early September.

BEFORE YOU VISIT

Check that you know what you wish to buy or that we are happy to see what you have to sell. Telephone 01923 220206 for an appointment. Unexpected callers will be turned away.

If you are buying, bring cash. Or bring a personal cheque with a cheque card, or a business cheque plus additional identification - we can then accept the cheque subject to authorisation by EQUIFAX. No cheque card, no identification? Then we can't accept your cheque.

If you are selling, please remember to bring some identification.
No identification? 
Then we can't buy anything from you, even if you have traveled hundreds of miles.
For details of the identification you will require, click here

BY ROAD IF YOU ARE USING SAT-NAV

Postcode is WD18 8PH, No.19

The moment the voice says you have reached your destination, look up to your left, see the big transmitting mast on the roof - that's the building you want, it's the only three-storey office block.

Turn left immediately before the green sign FLEXSPACE, TO LET (and above the main door: RECEPTION). Now scroll down to THE LAST BIT.

I've notice, as I drive around Watford, that a TomTom has a dozen errors, so if you use a TomTom, take a map or follow my instructions below.

BY ROAD / FOR OUT-OF-TOWN-ERS

You will need a road map that includes the London / Hertfordshire area. Find London. Now move your eye North West and find Watford. If you can see Harrow you're nearly there, if you're looking at St Albans, Hemel Hempstead or Amersham you've overshot. Have you found Watford? Now find Croxley. This is on the A412 West of Watford half way between the centre of Watford and the centre of Rickmansworth.  

Landmarks to ask for if you get lost and are 'somewhere in Watford' - the hospital and football stadium.

Landmarks to ask for if you know you are very close - Two Bridges pub; Ascot Road leading to Royal Mail Sorting office (ask a postman); Croxley.

Landmarks on map: bridge over the canal,  fire station (site being redeveloped 2010, but will still be shown as 'Fire Station' on maps), double roundabout.

It is the double roundabout you are aiming for, especially the smaller of the two with the word CROXLEY around on it.

What next?  ...please scroll down to THE LAST BIT

IF YOU HAVE A ROAD MAP OF THE M25 AREA

Watford is INSIDE the M25...but only just.  The M25 loops tightly round three sides of Watford so please look at the map - if you approach from the South use Junction 17 or 18, if you approach from the North West or North use Junction 19 or 20, if you approach from the East use Junction 21a. We are approximately 4.5 miles from each of these junctions.  Similarly, the A41 loops round two sides of Watford, look at the map or you could add 15mns to the journey.  From the M1 leave at either Junction 5 or 6. From the A1(M) I recommend that you leave at J3 onto A414 and follow the signs to the M1 (you will join M1 at J6 and leave it at J5).

BY ROAD / FOR LOCALS

From Watford. Watford Business Park (adjoining Croxley Business Park) is best approached from the Rickmansworth Road, the double roundabout is the first roundabout after the underpass.

From Bushey via Bushey Arches or from Northwood via the NATO ('Warrior') base, turn West into Deacons Hill / Wiggenhall Road, over the bridge at the lights, follow left into Vicarage Road, over the pedestrian lights, right at the traffic lights, road bends left , road bends right, ahead at mini roundabout,  left into the main road at lights.  You should now be in Whippendell Road. At the roundabout follow the signs to the Business Parks onto the Dual Carriageway.

From Rickmansworth via Watford Road aim for the roundabout after Croxley Green station.

From St Albans take the North Orbital then A412 / St Albans Road all the way.  Alternatively A411 / Hempstead Rd and join A412 / Rickmansworth Road at the Town Hall roundabout.

Do not confuse Watford Business Park with the industrial estates off Tolpits Lane - you cannot reach Watford Business Park from Tolpits Lane (there is a footpath, but there is no way for cars).

THE LAST BIT

At the double roundabout aim for the roundabout marked CROXLEY and follow the signs Croxley and Watford Business Parks and Business Parks, onto a short dual carriageway. 

If you prefer to navigate by landmarks rather than signs, your landmarks are as follows. At the larger roundabout a building site where a fire station stood until January 2010 (probably still marked Fire Station on maps), now a building site; at the slightly smaller roundabout (marked CROXLEY) aim for the Big Yellow Building and clock tower (being re-built Summer 2010, no clock) - YOU MUST PASS TO THE RIGHT OF THE CLOCK TOWER ONTO THE DUAL CARRIAGEWAY.

The dual carriageway is fast but very short. Happy? Skip this paragraph. No dual carriageway? Read the rest of this paragraph.  If (Eastbound) you negotiated the double roundabout but are now on a single carriageway A-road signed Town Centre, turn round. If (Westbound) you went round the CROXLEY roundabout but missed the dual carriageway, turn round. Either way, follow the signs Croxley and Watford Business Parks and Business Parks.

At the roundabout at the end of the dual carriageway (TOYOTA garage, empty building July 2010) take second exit (no choice); and at the next roundabout 1st exit (signed Watford Business Park).  

You are now in Greenhill Crescent, map  

SUMMARY

Park House is the seventh building on the left, when you see Pennings (on the right) you are getting close. Then phone us or call at Reception for directions to our unit.

DETAIL (early 2010)

After you have taken 1st Exit into Greenhill Crescent, Park House is the seventh building on the left, like this (all on the left):

- Renault
- Anthony Betts (closed down, name may change)
- KarTek
- Kenwood plc
- CF Baker Limited (closed down, name may change)
- Large warehouse, sign on building (August 2010): Warehouse. For Sale / To Let.
- Park House, unlike the other buildings it is a 3-storey office block, green sign reads FLEXSPACE, TO LET (and above the main door: RECEPTION)
and
turn left along the side of the building 2 yards before the main door.

You are now driving along the side of Park House, past Cafe Restaurant.  
When you get to the end (by the skips) turn right.  

You now have two options:

a) stop by the skips, stay in the car, telephone 01923 220206, someone will 'talk you down' until you arrive at our door. IF you follow these instructions the final few yards will be easy. However, if you are 'somewhere in Watford' or if you have decided to explore the Park House complex, we will not be able to work out where you are and will not be able to give you any further directions.
or
b) park anywhere, walk back to RECEPTION (where it says RECEPTION in huge letters over the main door at the front of the building), ask for directions. Reception is open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm.

BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

BY TRAIN / MAINLINE, Watford Junction Station FROM LONDON either the Euston-Watford line (mainline) or London Underground Bakerloo Line and change at Queens Park.  Then take a bus or taxi, it's too far to walk.  FROM THE NORTH Glasgow-Crewe-Birmingham-Watford. National Rail Enquiries: 08457 48 49 50.

BY TRAIN / LONDON TRANSPORT, Watford (Met. line) Station. London Underground Metropolitan Line.  London Transport Passenger Enquiries: 020 7222 1234.

These two stations are in different parts of town so please check your route carefully.

BY BUS, W30 goes past our door (opposite CAXTON WAY), mornings and evenings only (7.20am to 9am, and from 4.20pm) from Watford Junction and Watford Town Centre.

BY BUS 5 or 6.  It's a 10mn walk from the roundabout at the main road (junction of A412/Rickmansworth Road-Watford Road  and Whippendell Road), this bus stop know as CROXLEY, TWO BRIDGES.  Many other buses stop near this roundabout, on average every 15mns throughout the day, maps and timetables www.arriva.co.uk 
Hertfordshire Passenger Transport enquiries: 0870 6082608.  

BY TAXI from Watford Junction Station or from the pedestrianised Watford Town Centre or try 01923 252525 for a minicab. If you're traveling on the Met. Line go to Croxley rather than Watford because there's a minicab office next to to Croxley Station.

BY FOOT (from Watford Met. Station) or by BICYCLE

From Watford (Metropolitan Line) Station the walk takes me 20mns. If you keep stopping to check these directions it could take 25mns. My colleague insists it takes him 17mns.

Turn left out of the station [Cassiobury Park Avenue] 
and first left into Swiss Avenue.

At the end, turn right and cross the main road (Rickmansworth Road).
You are half way there.

Follow the pavement to the left, around the [Summer 2010, building site].
Ahead you can see a roundabout marked CROXLEY, a big yellow building and a derelict clock tower (Summer 2010, no clock, building in progress).  

Cross the road (Wippendell Road) and continue ahead into Ascot Road (cyclists join the cycle path here, it avoids the roundabout on the main road).

K eep the yellow building to your left and the clock tower to your right, you will pass under the low railway bridge, derelict-looking warehouse on your left, trees on your right.

When you get to the end of the road (just past the entrance of the Royal Mail Sorting Office) you can see that straight ahead is a dead end (for traffic) and to your right is a roundabout.

By foot: aim for the roundabout (road sign reads BUSINESS PARKS)
and at the second roundabout follow the pavement round to the left (road signs reads WATFORD BUSINESS PARK).
By bicycle instead of turning right towards the roundabout, continue ahead. The cycle path splits, left towards Watford, right towards the buildings of the Business Park - turn right, through the posts.
At the end turn left into the main road.

You are now in Greenhill Crescent. Park House is the eighth building on your left if you are walking (or fifth if you followed the cycle path) with RECEPTION in bold letters above the main door (you are getting close when you see PENNINGS on the right...but please remember, Park House will be on your left).  It is easy to spot because it is the only 3-storey office block, and it has a huge transmitting mast on the roof.