Post boxes dug up and stolen from village near Burton

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https://i2-prod.staffordshire-live.co.uk/incoming/article4695028.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Two-post-boxes-have-been-stolen-from-Yoxall.jpgPost boxes have been dug out of the ground and stolen from a village near Burton.

A postman on their round noticed two of the post boxes were missing and the Royal Mail's Burton delivery office reported it to Staffordshire Police.

The first was situated on the soft verge next to the phone box on Dunstall Lane, Hadley End, Yoxall, before it went missing.

A spokesman for the police said it appeared to have been dug out of the ground and it is believed to have happened between 1.15pm on Monday, November 10, and 2pm yesterday, November 11.

The second post box was in Woodmill, Woodlane, Yoxall. Again, it appears the post box was dug out of a grass verge, between 1.35pm on Monday and 2pm yesterday, police have said.

It was not just Yoxall that was targeted in post box thefts as a third was taken from Bancroft Lane in Nethertown, Rugeley, sometime between Monday evening and 3pm yesterday.


This one was a small, metal cubic post box and was taken off a metal pole.

PC Richard Lymer, of the East Staffordshire Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "The sheer weight of the boxes alone can be over 1.5 tonnes, so they would need a fairly substantial piece of lifting equipment and also a vehicle to steal them.

"If anyone saw anything like this in the areas please get in touch."

A sign was stolen from a property called The Oaks, on Upper Hoar Cross Road, Hadley End, which seems to have been stolen in similar circumstances, a police spokesman added.

Anyone with any information should message Staffordshire Police on Facebook or Twitter quoting incident number 292, 392 and 403 of November 11, call 101 or alternatively contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.