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A shocked Peterborough resident recovered a Royal Mail delivery trolley he found abandoned at the side of a city road.
Richard Mourton (28), of Oakleigh Drive, Woodston, Peterborough, spotted the trolley as he was driving along Shrewsbury Avenue at around 5.20pm on November 6.
He immediately called the police and agreed to keep the load until a representative from the Royal Mail could recover the items.
Mr Mourton said: “I couldn’t believe it - I was just driving to Tesco and I saw it reflecting off the street light.
“It looks like it had just been left by the side of the road on the path.
“I phoned the police and told them about it and I agreed to look after it until the Royal Mail could pick it up. It was at least a quarter full and it was really heavy but I got it into the house.”
The representative from the Royal Mail recovered the trolley later on that evening.
The Royal Mail has said that not a single letter was reported as missing and it is believed that all of the letters in the trolley were returned to the system.
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said they would not be launching an investigation.
She said: “We have had no reports of missing mail. We have a zero tolerance policy towards mail not being delivered, but there is no evidence of that.
“Our records do not show that any letters were not delivered so there is not an investigation pending.”
Mr Mourton added: “The man from the Royal Mail even mentioned that there were letters in there so they definitely know that some letters had been dumped.
“I think they should be doing something about it. You can’t just expect members of the public to call in and look after letters that have been dumped.”
A police spokesman confirmed they had spoken to the Royal Mail about the finding.
He said: “We received a call at 5.20pm that a Royal Mail trolley had been found off Shrewsbury Avenue.
“We alerted Royal Mail and they went to the person who found the trolley’s house to collect it.
“We never attended the scene and we left it to the Royal Mail to recover the trolley. There is no investigation going on at the moment.”
Royal Mail delivers around 80 million items each day and has a strict policy in place if postal workers are found to have purposefully not delivered mail.
Postal workers can be jailed if they are found guilty of dumping letters and presents, although no investigation is pending in this case.
With city residents preparing to send Christmas letters and presents in the mail, the Royal Mail spokesman added: “We are of course preparing to deliver an excellent service to customers this Christmas.”
If anyone is worried that their mail has not been delivered, they should call Royal Mail Customer Care on 08457 740 740 for further advice.
