MP Richard Tice revealed one of his first jobs was in a Royal Mail sorting office when he visited one in his constituency to show support for posties at their busiest time of year.
The multi-millionaire businessman who won the Boston and Skegness seat for Reform in May paid a nostalgic visit to Boston Delivery Office on Saturday to find out more about what it takes nowadays to deliver letters and parcels in his constituency.
Around twice as many parcels and letters are sent through Royal Mail during the festive period compared with other months as people send Christmas cards and shop for gifts online
Mr Tice spoke to Lead Customer Operations Manager Nick Hudson about Royal Mail’s strategy to continue to make sending and receiving parcels as convenient as possible over the festive period by adding more choice.
This includes services like Parcel Collect, where posties pick up parcels from customers at the doorstep, and offering more ways to drop off parcels at convenient times and locations. Royal Mail has already rolled out more than 5,000 parcel points this year, including at Collect+ stores and its growing number of parcel lockers.