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A POSTBOX in an area with a high student population is being rammed with so many home Covid tests that the packages can barely fit inside.
Royal Mail has now stepped up its daily collections from the box in Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, a city seeing a big spike in virus cases. On Monday alone, 425 University of Nottingham students tested positive.
Amy Collins, 21, said she was shocked to discover the overflowing box.
The sports rehabilitation student said: ‘My housemate has symptoms so we were posting a test for her. The postbox was filled right up to the top. Everything you could see inside was home kits. It’s pretty unnerving and it made me realise how much it was affecting the student population more than anything.’
Nottingham’s infection rate of 440.1 per 100,000 people is the fifth highest in England. A Royal Mail spokesperson said: ‘This priority postbox is in an area of Nottingham where there is a high student population.
‘The postbox has received larger than usual volumes of completed test kits in the last 24 hours following a recent spike in student cases. We already carry out three daily clearances of this postbox from Monday to Friday. We are introducing two additional clearances and continue to monitor the situation.’
