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Long-running Richmond storage business on River Road with units from tiny two-by-three lockers up to ten-by-twenty rooms. It also rents mailboxes and receives parcels with same-day email notice, plus mail forwarding, scanning and moving supplies.
Go and look at a unit before booking one. Storage dimensions on a page mean very little until you are standing inside the space working out whether the sofa goes in sideways, and this operator runs everything from two-by-three lockers up to ten-by-twenty rooms, a spread wide enough to cover a box of documents at one end and the contents of a house between moves at the other.
The mailbox side is the part most people miss. It rents mailboxes and receives parcels with same-day email notice, and it also does mail forwarding, scanning and moving supplies, which turns the place into a practical address service rather than only a storage yard. If you run a small business out of your house, travel for long stretches, or find yourself between addresses, that combination solves a genuine problem. Same-day notice on a parcel is the difference between a service and a nuisance.
River Road runs along the northern edge of Richmond through the warehouse and industrial belt, which is where every storage business in this city ends up for obvious reasons. Land here is expensive and industrial sites keep getting converted into something else. The long-running operators are the ones worth knowing about. It is a drive rather than a walk, and you will want a vehicle for anything beyond a mailbox run. Settle the access arrangements before signing, because a moving day that runs late is exactly when those details start to matter.
In the Bridgeport neighbourhood of Richmond.
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