Police are investigating after a Royal Mail postbox was mown down by a delivery driver in the city centre. The red pillar box – on Trinity Street, in Hanley – was struck by the delivery vehicle on Wednesday night. It was knocked completely out of the ground in the incident, …
Read More »Post boxes dug up and stolen from village near Burton
Post 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 …
Read More »Police probe after Stoke-on-Trent postman accused of ‘sexually assaulting’ woman on his round
A postman was ‘immediately suspended’ from duty after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman as he delivered her mail. Royal Mail is investigating the allegation which has been made by a Stoke-on-Trent woman and dates back to the summer. The same allegation has been lodged with Staffordshire Police. The …
Read More »Royal Mail accused of being ‘negligent’ after sacking of Stoke-on-Trent postman
Royal Mail has come under fire over the sacking a long-serving postman who was called in to work at short notice on his week off at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Austin had already drunk a large amount of strong cider when he received the call from bosses …
Read More »North Staffordshire postman, 50, kills himself after struggling to cope during coronavirus lockdown
Postman Darren Beech took his own life after he had been struggling during the Covid-19 lockdown. The 50-year-old was found dead by his two brothers at his Kidsgrove home on May 17. An inquest into his death at Stoke’s civic centre heard he was found in the bath, a day …
Read More »Alton Towers owner donates thousands of tickets to key workers in ‘Big Merlin Thank You’
The company that owns Alton Towers is giving away 30,000 tickets to emergency services and support workers across the world. Merlin Entertainments is donating the tickets to people in Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand as well as 10,000 in the UK. Most of the tickets in the UK …
Read More »Parcel delivery scam that could cost you hundreds of pounds
It may only be the start of November but already there is a Christmas scam doing the rounds. As Christmas Day is now well and truly on the way, more people will be ordering presents online and more packages will be arriving in the post. And as people are often …
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