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Blunders leave no pillars to post

Post Office blunders have left Lavender Hill without a single working pillar box.

Residents, shopkeepers, office workers, bar staff and restaurateurs have no where to post a letter after 7pm and only one place to post before then.

Now Battersea’s Labour MP Martin Linton has taken up the case with Adam Crozier, the beleaguered chief executive of Royal Mail.

“Royal Mail has managed to close all the post boxes on Lavender Hill at the same time for a host of different reasons”, Martin explains.

“One box closed because it is ‘opposite a crossing’, but the crossing, close by Battersea Library, has been there for years.

“Another box is closed for ‘health and safety reasons’. I am told it became ‘unsafe to collect from’.  Yet another, opposite the Arts Centre, has closed no apparent reason at all.

“The Lavender Hill Post Office is the main post office for the whole of South West London, yet you can’t post a letter there in the evenings.

 “You can buy almost anything in Lavender Hill from high-hat cymbals to homeopathic pet remedies. What you can’t do is find a pillar box because they are all sealed.

 “This is not an acceptable service and shows a lack of joined-up thinking in Royal Mail. I have asked the company to restore Lavender Hill’s pillar boxes as soon as possible.”