Royal Mail: Basingstoke postie replaced for dumping letters

Royal Mail confirmed a postal employee had “wilfully delayed” quite a lot of letters in Lychpit.

It comes after Lychpit resident, David Ross, 66, expressed issues to the sorting workplace that he had not obtained a letter he was anticipating.

The retired ambulance service employee, who lives in Badger’s Financial institution, additionally contacted MP Alex Brewer, who wrote to Royal Mail and obtained the next response:

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“I remorse that quite a lot of letters for some addresses together with your constituent had been wilfully delayed.

“I’m sorry for any concern this has brought about and I wish to reassure you and your constituent that we’re on no account complacent about such issues with our buyer’s mail.

“We continually evaluate safety to make sure we’re taking all sensible steps to eradicate any risk to the integrity of our service and we now have zero tolerance in direction of this sort of behaviour.

“All mail was retrieved and those who had been delayed have now been delivered, together with objects for the Badgers Financial institution. A brand new postie has been assigned to this supply spherical and nowadays mail deliveries to Badgers Financial institution are happening six days per week, when there may be mail accessible to ship.

“I wish to reassure you that ought to a supply spherical not be accomplished on a selected day, it would develop into the precedence the next working day.”

David informed the Gazette that he and fiancé Mary had been “bowled over” by the response, including that he thinks it’s “completely disgraceful.”

He stated: “To obtain a letter from the MP and Royal Mail saying a postie is dumping letters, it is onerous to consider.

“Particularly at the moment of 12 months when persons are posting presents and vouchers. Folks may not get Christmas presents due to this.”

A spokesperson for Royal Mail stated: “Misplaced mail is a severe matter, and we now have processes in place to analyze and resolve such points.

“We will guarantee residents in Lychpit who obtained this letter that every one their excellent mail was delivered forward of Christmas. Our regular service resumed in time for the Christmas interval.”

It was unclear what motion has been taken towards the postie at fault, Royal Mail declined to deal with the person.