✉️ As Christmas mail finally lands on doormats across the nation, Royal Mail confirmed to theipaper that some households still have not received their cards, and it could not say when they would arrive
has admitted it is still to deliver cards and letters sent out for Christmas, nearly a fortnight after 25 December.Christmas postPhil Hewitt, an author, said he posted a Christmas card to his mother-in-law on 12 December using a first-class stamp, but that it had taken three weeks to reach its intended destination, finally turning up on Wednesday.
In East Grinstead, West Sussex, retiree Roy Henderson was surprised to received a card on Thursday – Twelfth Night by some people’s calculations – the date by which tradition dictates Christmas decorations should be removed to avoid bad luck. In Watford, Hertfordshire, postal bags might have been especially heavy today if resident Charlie Hancock’s experience is anything to go by. He has just received “another six Christmas cards”.
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