MP Makes Christmas Visit to Sorting Office

Christopher Pincher praises work of posties

Christopher Pincher, Member of Parliament for Tamworth paid an early morning call to Tamworth’s mail sorting office in Blythe Street to see for himself the efforts of our town’s postmen to get ready for Christmas.

The depot in Blythe Street employs 135 postal workers handling tens of thousands of letters and parcels each day.  The Christmas rush has already begun with cards and gift parcels moving through the system.

Mr. Pincher said:
“I had a good look around the busy sorting office and found out how mail packages arrive at the depot, are opened and sorted into walks (the post office term for a postie’s “round”) then bundled up and bagged ready for delivery – and all by about 0930 in the morning.  I was evening able to collect my own post saving my postman a small job!”

“Christmas is the busiest time for our local postal staff and they really do a fantastic job when you see the volume of mail they have to deal with.  Thank you to Ian Bennett and his team for showing me around.”