'Royal Mail is not delivering letters' - Shropshire MP demands explanation after mail fails to reach Shifnal, Albrighton and Newport

[POSTMAN]

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/loc ... -villages/

Mark Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin, said he had received a number of complaints about letters not being delivered in areas of Shifnal, Albrighton and Newport.

He has written to the chief executive of Royal Mail, Alistair Cochrane, calling for an urgent investigation into the matter.

"This has been going on for some days now, in fact, a couple of weeks in some areas," he said.

"I've written to the chief executive of Royal Mail asking for an urgent investigation as to why this is happening.

"People are waiting for replies in letter form for hospital appointments, GP responses, all sorts of job application responses and whatever it might be, letters are vital."

Mr Pritchard added that the price of stamps were now 'very expensive'.

He said he expected Royal Mail's senior management to intervene and deal swiftly with the problem.

"My constituents deserve better," Mr Pritchard added.

"It's not the fault of local postmen and women. They do a fantastic job through all weathers and all situations, and I'm grateful to them in the local post offices and in the sorting offices, but the Royal Mail management need to intervene and sort this out and get the backlog cleared and get delivering letters once again to my constituents."

[Mr Rush]

"I've written to the chief executive of Royal Mail asking for an urgent investigation as to why this is happening.

Do you think the Chief Exec replied 'oh, yeah, you're not the first to bring this up'. All of the identical stories in the news section describing these same issues should be rolled together into a group litigation. Nowhere are these problems local - they are national and can only be truly solved thus.

[TopperGas]

"He said he expected Royal Mail's senior management to intervene and deal swiftly with the problem."

Is he being serious or just saying what he thinks his constituents wants to hear him say?

AC's probably already filed the letter under "not interested".

[Barnacle]

This MP’s letter could be from any area. RM isn’t delivering letters. It’s actively choosing not to.

Why is that though? Are they trying to decrease demand to the point where they won’t be as criticised for dropping them, or are they trying to have the USO taken off them?