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Royal Mail apologises after Christmas playing cards flip up a yr late for mad cause

A former Royal Mail postie is underneath police investigation after residents reported lacking publish for weeks and even months in the direction of the top of 2021.

Among the misplaced mail within the Falmouth space have been letters with important hospital appointments and a heap of Christmas playing cards. Devon and Cornwall Police consider the incidents occurred between September and December 2021.

Affected locals obtained an apology from Royal Mail earlier this yr, with some publish arriving greater than two years late. One girl was shocked to obtain a letter in early 2023 detailing her hospital appointment from 2021, Cornwall Live stories.

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One woman's Christmas card turned up a year late . . . with cash (stock)
One girl’s Christmas card turned up a yr late . . . with money (inventory)

Katie Goldburn mentioned she acquired a letter from Royal Mail explaining the scenario and that an investigation was ongoing. “And then we received post and even Christmas cards the following couple of weeks,” she added.

Another resident, Tracy Vincent, additionally skilled lacking publish throughout that interval. “We had a letter from Royal Mail apologising,” she mentioned. “We got my daughter’s birthday card nearly a year after the event.

“Lots of our regular Christmas publish did not arrive like playing cards, and so forth, and one with a cheque in. Luckily we did not have any vital publish go lacking.”

A number of others affected said their post arrived “years later” and that they recall not receiving any post for weeks.

Falmouth and Helston Police shared an appeal this week asking for anyone affected to get in touch with the investigating officer, police constable Fuller. Officers for Devon and Cornwall Police said it received a report regarding a postal worker for Royal Mail failing to deliver post in the Falmouth area.



An investigation is now underway (stock)
An investigation is now underway (inventory)

It’s alleged to have occurred between September 2021 and the top of December 2021 with Christmas playing cards and hospital appointments among the many publish to have gone lacking over the three-month interval. If you or anyone has been affected by this incident you’ll be able to contact PC Fuller (7532) on [email protected] quoting crime reference quantity 50230138910.

A spokesperson for Royal Mail mentioned: “An amount of mail for Falmouth was found earlier this year in Camborne, all dated between September and December 2021. All the recovered mail, along with an apology letter, was delivered to affected residents throughout March and April. We carried out an internal investigation and the missing mail was connected to an agency worker, not a Royal Mail employee, who left the business”

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