| As there is usually too much mail for posties to carry, mail for different parts of their route is deposited in pouch boxes and collected when the posties get further along their round.
But when no pouch boxes available, an arrangement is sometimes made with a local business to store the mail.
A Dundee man contacted the Tele today to express his shock after discovering mail was being stored at his local newsagents.
“We hadn’t got any mail this morning, but a couple of my neighbours told me that it had been left in the shop,” said the Court Street resident, who asked not to be named.
“Sure enough I went into the shop and the man said that the postie had just been to collect.
“I don’t think it’s good enough and I don’t think the post should just be left in a shop.”
A spokeswoman for Royal Mail defended the practice. “We do on occasion make an arrangement with shopkeepers or other addresses when there is no pouch box available,” she said. “We use these locations, which are thoroughly checked out for security.
“These shops then work exactly like pouch boxes,” she added. |
